Comparison of Neural Responses to Cat Meows and Human Vowels in the Anterior and Posterior Auditory Field of Awake Cats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Hanlu ^a   Qin, Ling ^a,b   Dong, Chao ^a   Zhong, Renjia ^a,b   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION; VOWEL; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871795535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052942     Document Type: Article

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