Auditory neuroscience: neuronal sensitivity in humans.
Microelectrode recordings from the human auditory cortex suggest that the tuning of individual neurons can account for sound frequency discrimination thresholds and that this tuning varies in a context-dependent fashion with the type of sound used to measure it.
Schnupp
Jan W H
JW
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Sherrington Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
King
Andrew J
AJ
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*