Decoding neural responses to temporal cues for sound localization

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Goodman, Dan F M ^a,b,c,d   Benichoux, Victor ^a,b   Brette, Romain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CAT; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEURAL DECODING; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; OWL; ROBUSTNESS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND DIFFRACTION; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; TUNING; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; HEARING; NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NOISE;

EID: 84889573706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.01312     Document Type: Article

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