Noise-invariant Neurons in the Avian Auditory Cortex: Hearing the Song in Noise

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Moore, R Channing ^a   Lee, Tyler ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; BRAIN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGIONS; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; COMMUNICATION SIGNALS; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; NEURAL RESPONSE; NOISE FILTERING; ROTATION INVARIANT;

NEURONS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALIUM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84875984611     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002942     Document Type: Article

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