Spectrotemporal contrast kernels for neurons in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 11271-11284

  Rabinowitz, Neil C ^a   Willmore, Ben D B ^a   Schnupp, Jan W H ^a   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FERRET; KERNEL METHOD; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND; SPIKE; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FERRETS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SOUND;

EID: 84864999020     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1715-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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