Frequency discrimination and stimulus deviance in the inferior colliculus and cochlear nucleus

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Ayala, Yaneri A ^a   Pérez González, David ^a   Duque, Daniel ^c   Nelken, Israel ^a   Malmierca, Manuel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Change detection; Deviant sensitivity; Mismatch negativity; Non lemniscal pathway; ROC analysis; SSA

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBABILITY; RAT;

EID: 84872078038     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00119     Document Type: Article

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