Responses to social vocalizations in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of mice

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Roberts, Patrick D ^a   Portfors, Christine V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion products; Dorsal cochlear nucleus; Frequency tuning; Mouse; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPINDLE CELL; STIMULUS; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84954057257     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00172     Document Type: Article

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