Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6904, 2002, Pages 293-296

  Linkenhoker, Brie A ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY;

AUDITORY SPACE MAP;

NEUROLOGY;

PLASTICITY; RAPTOR; TRAINING; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

ANIMALIA; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 0037136524     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01002     Document Type: Article

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