Circuits for processing dynamic interaural intensity disparities in the inferior colliculus

Hearing Research

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 47-57

  Pollak, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; DORSAL NUCLEUS OF THE LATERAL LEMNISCUS; DYNAMICS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY INHIBITORY NEURON; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INNERVATION; INTERAURAL INTENSITY DISPARITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84861839765     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.01.011     Document Type: Review

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