Noninvasive fMRI Investigation of Interaural Level Difference Processing in the Rat Auditory Subcortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lau, Condon ^a   Zhang, Jevin W ^a   Cheng, Joe S ^a   Zhou, Iris Y ^a   Cheung, Matthew M ^a   Wu, Ed X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE; LATERAL LEMNISCUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 84881116913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070706     Document Type: Article

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