Precise feature based time scales and frequency decorrelation lead to a sparse auditory code

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 8454-8468

  Chen, Chen ^a   Read, Heather L ^a   Escabí, Monty A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CODING; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CAT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOUND; SPIKE;

EID: 84862900128     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6506-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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