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Auditory maps in the midbrain: The inferior colliculus

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  1. Department of Neurobiology, University of Ulm, Ulm

    Günter Ehret & Birgit A. Müller

  2. Department of Neurobiology, German Primate Center Göttingen, Germany

    Steffen R. Hage

  3. Laboratory of Comparative Physiology of Sensory Systems, I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg

    Marina Egorova

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Ehret, G., Hage, S.R., Egorova, M., Müller, B.A. (2005). Auditory maps in the midbrain: The inferior colliculus. In: Pressnitzer, D., de Cheveigné, A., McAdams, S., Collet, L. (eds) Auditory Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27045-0_20

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