Approaches to the study of neural coding of sound source location and sound envelope in real environments

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a   Bishop, Brian ^a   Kim, Duck O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Am envelope processing; Auditory distance; Inferior colliculus; Reverberation; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CELL FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RABBIT; REVERBERATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84865105376     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00042     Document Type: Article

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