Auditory cortex lesions in the rat impair both temporal acuity and noise increment thresholds, revealing a common neural substrate

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 815-822

  Bowen, G Peter ^a   Lin, Daniel ^a   Taylor, Merritt K ^a   Ison, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0042172911     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.8.815     Document Type: Article

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