Increasing diversity of neural responses to speech sounds across the central auditory pathway

Neuroscience

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-97

  Ranasinghe, K G ^a   Vrana, W A ^a   Matney, C J ^a   Kilgard, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple acoustic parameters; Neural response diversity; Noise vocoded speech; Rat auditory system; Redundancy reduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

A1; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; F1; F2; FIRST FORMANT; IC; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; NEURAL RESPONSE DIVERSITY; NOISE-VOCODED SPEECH; POST STIMULUS TIME HISTOGRAM; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PSTH; RAT AUDITORY SYSTEM; REDUNDANCY REDUCTION; SECOND FORMANT;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPEECH;

EID: 84883496893     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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