Predicting spike timing in highly synchronous auditory neurons at different sound levels

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1672-1688

  Fontaine, Bertrand ^a,b,c,d   Benichoux, Victor ^a,b   Joris, Philip X ^c   Brette, Romain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bushy cell; Level invariance; Spike threshold adaptation; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE;

BUSHY CELL; LEVEL INVARIANCE; SPIKE THRESHOLD ADAPTATION; TEMPORAL CODING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84884913105     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00051.2013     Document Type: Article

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