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2-Deoxyglucose experiments were carried out during which tone bursts were presented to one ear of cats, while white noise bursts were presented to the other ear. Autoradiography revealed that the tones had produced clear bands of reduced labelling in the ipsilateral inferior colliculus, in addition to the expected band of increased labelling in the contralateral inferior colliculus. The positions of the bands or contours appeared to be organized tonotopically into iso-frequency inhibitory contours.
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Webster, W.R., Servière, J. & Brown, M. Inhibitory contours in the inferior colliculus as revealed by the 2-deoxyglucose method. Exp Brain Res 56, 577–581 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238000
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238000