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Tonotopic organization of the superior olivary nucleus in the chicken auditory brainstem

Kathryn M Tabor1, William L Coleman, Edwin W Rubel

  • 1Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

The Journal of Comparative Neurology
|November 22, 2011
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