Emergence of tuning to natural stimulus statistics along the central auditory pathway.

We have previously shown that neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) of anaesthetized (ketamine/medetomidine) ferrets respond more strongly and reliably to dynamic stimuli whose statistics follow "natural" 1/f dynamics than to stimuli exhibiting pitch and amplitude modulations that are fa...

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Main Authors: Jose A Garcia-Lazaro, Bashir Ahmed, Jan W H Schnupp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3151266?pdf=render