Detecting interaural time differences and remodeling their representation

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 289-300

  Vonderschen, Katrin ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing; Coincidence detection; Interaural time difference; Neural code transformation

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BRAIN STEM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; TUNING CURVE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899981563     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.03.002     Document Type: Review

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