Sound-guided shaping of the receptive field in the mouse auditory cortex by basal forebrain activation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 563-576

  Yan, Jun ^a   Zhang, Yunfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory plasticity; Basal forebrain; Frequency threshold tuning curve; Hearing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13444266224     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03878.x     Document Type: Article

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