Adaptive coding is constrained to midline locations in a spatial listening task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1856-1868

  Maier, J K ^a,b,e   Hehrmann, P ^d   Harper, N S ^a,c   Klump, G M ^b   Pressnitzer, D ^e   McAlpine, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Interaural time difference; Midbrain; Neural model; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84867172497     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00652.2011     Document Type: Article

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