Age-related alteration in processing of temporal sound features in the auditory midbrain of the CBA mouse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2764-2776

  Walton, Joseph P ^a,b   Frisina, Robert D ^a   O'Neill, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forward masking; Gap detection; Hearing; Inferior colliculus; Neural recovery; Presbycusis; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0032053446     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-07-02764.1998     Document Type: Article

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