Naturalistic experience transforms sensory maps in the adult cortex of caged animals

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6987, 2004, Pages 67-71

  Polley, Daniel B ^a,d   Kvašňák, Eugen ^a   Frostig, Ron D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PLASTICITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SENSORY AIDS;

NEURONAL RESPONSES; SIGNAL OPTICAL IMAGING;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HOUSING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 2342581588     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02469     Document Type: Article

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