Auditory cortical plasticity under operation: Reorganization of auditory cortex induced by electric cochlear stimulation reveals adaptation to altered sensory input statistics

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 201-219

  Dinse, Hubert R ^a   Godde, Ben ^b   Reuter, Günter ^c   Cords, Sven M ^a   Hilger, Thomas ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Medical University   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cochleotopy; Coding; Continuous interleaved sampling strategy; Cortical plasticity; Hebbian plasticity; Optical recording; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PLASTICITY; PROSTHETICS; SPEECH CODING;

COCHLEAR PROSTHESES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037680309     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00104-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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