Auditory processing of acoustic communication signals: Sensory biophysics, neural coding, and discrimination of conspecific songs

Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 129-156

  Herz, Andreas V M ^a   Benda, Jan ^b   Gollisch, Tim ^a   Machens, Christian K ^c   Schaette, Roland ^a   Schütze, Hartmut ^a   Stemmler, Martin B ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

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