Signal-to-noise ratio in the membrane potential of the owl's auditory coincidence detectors

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2837-2845

  Ashida, Go ^a   Funabiki, Kazuo ^b,c   Kuokkanen, Paula T ^d   Kempter, Richard ^d   Carr, Catherine E ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory coincidence detector; Owl; Phase locking; Signal to noise ratio; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AXONAL DELAY LINE; COINCIDENCE DETECTOR; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84869187619     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00366.2012     Document Type: Article

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