Summary
The stimulus correlated discharge periodicities of single neurons described in the literature for all parts of the acoustic channel below the geniculatum mediale were confirmed for the colliculus inferior. Furthermore a quite different kind of discharge periodicity in the geniculatum mediale is reported. With these results structure models are given for the neuronal temporal measurement of coincidence. Finally a possibility of discrimination between intra-modality-specific and intra-modality-nonspecific processing mechanism is shown.
Zusammenfassung
Die in der Literatur für alle Teile der Hörbahn unterhalb des Geniculatum mediale beschriebenen reizkorrelierten Entladungsperiodizitäten einzelner Neurone wurden für den Colliculus inferior bestätigt. Darüber hinaus wird über eine ganz andersartige Entladungsperiodizität im Geniculatum mediale berichtet. Davon ausgehend werden Strukturmodelle für die neuronale zeitliche Koinzidenzmessung angegeben. Schließlich wird auf eine Unterscheidungsmöglichkeit von intramodalitätsspezifischen und intramodalitätsunspezifischen neuronalen Verarbeitungsmechanismen hingewiesen.
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David, E., Finkenzeller, P., Kallert, S. et al. Reizfrequenzkorrelierte “untersetzte” neuronale Entladungsperiodizität im Colliculus inferior und im corpus geniculatum mediale. Pflugers Arch. 309, 11–20 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00592278
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