Competing sound sources reveal spatial effects in cortical processing

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Maddox, Ross K ^a,b   Billimoria, Cyrus P ^a,b   Perrone, Ben P ^a,b   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a,b   Sen, Kamal ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FINCH; HEARING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; EAR; HEAD; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

MAMMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EAR; FINCHES; HEAD; MALE; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84861566197     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001319     Document Type: Article

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