Spatial tuning to sound-source azimuth in the inferior colliculus of unanesthetized rabbit

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2698-2708

  Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a   Bishop, Brian ^a   Alex, Caitlin ^b   Condit, Daniel W ^a   Kim, Duck O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Binaural; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AZIMUTH TUNING; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MONAURAL HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; RABBITS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 80755143826     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00532.2011     Document Type: Article

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