Functional Groups in the Avian Auditory System
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Functional groups in the avian auditory system.
Auditory perception depends on the coding and organization of the information-bearing acoustic features of sounds by auditory neurons. We report here that auditory neurons can be classified into functional groups, each of which plays a specific role in extracting distinct complex sound features. We recorded the electrophysiological responses of single auditory neurons in the songbird midbrain a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2042-08.2009