The representation of sound localization cues in the barn owl's inferior colliculus

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue JULY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Singheiser, Martin ^a   Gutfreund, Yoram ^b   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Auditory; Central nucleus of the inferior colliculus; Frequency tuning; Interaural level difference; Interaural time difference; Plasticity; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BARN OWL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OWL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 84865112793     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00045     Document Type: Review

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