Temporal variability of spectro-temporal receptive fields in the anesthetized auditory cortex

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Meyer, Arne F ^a   Diepenbrock, Jan Philipp ^b   Ohl, Frank W ^b,c   AnemÜller, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Generalized linear model; Inferior colliculus; Receptive field; Sensory coding; Time varying; Zero mean prior

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; SENSORY CODING; TIME VARYING; ZERO-MEAN PRIOR;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIMULATION; SPECTRO TEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84919948329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00165     Document Type: Article

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