Audiovisual integration in the primary auditory cortex of an awake rodent

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 534, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-29

  Kobayasi, Kohta I ^a   suwa, Yoichi ^a   Riquimaroux, Hiroshi ^a  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A1; Mongolian gerbil; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; GERBILLINAE; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84873056929     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.056     Document Type: Article

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