A site of auditory experience-dependent plasticity in the neural representation of auditory space in the barn, owl's inferior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3469-3486

  Gold, Joshua I ^a,b   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Hearing impairment; Inferior colliculus; Sensory experience; Sound localization; Superior colliculus; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EXPERIENCE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0034194293     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-09-03469.2000     Document Type: Article

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