Auditory abstraction from spectro-temporal features to coding auditory entities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18968-18973

  Chechik, Gal ^a   Nelken, Israel ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ABSTRACTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS;

AVES;

EID: 84869206949     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111242109     Document Type: Article

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