Independent population coding of speech with sub-millisecond precision

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 49, 2013, Pages 19362-19372

  Garcia Lazaro, Jose A ^a   Belliveau, Lucile A C ^a   Lesica, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MOUSE; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GERBILLINAE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888991199     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3711-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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