Ability of primary auditory cortical neurons to detect amplitude modulation with rate and temporal codes: Neurometric analysis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3325-3341

  Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   Yin, Pingbo ^a   O'Connor, Kevin N ^a   Sutter, Mitchell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuronal pooling; Phase locking; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MACACA; NEUROMETRIC ANALYSIS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84862567721     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00812.2011     Document Type: Article

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