Environmental enrichment improves response strength, threshold, selectivity, and latency of auditory cortex neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-82

  Engineer, Navzer D ^a   Percaccio, Cherie R ^a   Pandya, Pritesh K ^a   Moucha, Raluca ^a   Rathbun, Daniel L ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 3042590485     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00059.2004     Document Type: Article

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