Calling song recognition in female crickets: Temporal tuning of identified brain neurons matches behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 9601-9612

  Kostarakos, Konstantinos ^a   Hedwig, Berthold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GRYLLIDAE; INTERNEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863706801     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1170-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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