Injury- and use-related plasticity in the primary sensory cortex of adult mammals: Possible relationship to perceptual learning

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10-11, 1996, Pages 939-947

  Irvine, D R F ^a   Rajan, R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cochlear lesion; Hearing loss; Perceptual learning; Representational plasticity; Tonotopicity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAT; COCHLEA INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029829477     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb01146.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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