Linear summation in the barn owl's brainstem underlies responses to interaural time differences

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-130

  Kuokkanen, Paula T ^a,b   Ashida, Go ^c   Carr, Catherine E ^c   Wagner, Hermann ^d   Kempter, Richard ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory coincidence detector; Extracellular field potential; Neurophonic; Phase locking; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SUMMATION; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

AUDITORY COINCIDENCE DETECTOR; EXTRACELLULAR FIELD POTENTIAL; NEUROPHONIC; PHASE LOCKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84879682265     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00410.2012     Document Type: Article

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