Microsecond precision of phase delay in the auditory system of the barn owl Short title: Microsecond precision of phase delay
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Microsecond precision of phase delay in the auditory system of the barn owl.
The auditory system encodes time with sub-millisecond accuracy. To shed new light on the basic mechanism underlying this precise temporal neuronal coding, we analyzed the neurophonic potential, a characteristic multiunit response, in the barn owl's nucleus laminaris. We report here that the relative time measure of phase delay is robust against changes in sound level, with a precision sharper t...
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