Sound case for enrichment. Focus on "environmental enrichment improves response strength, threshold, selectivity, and latency of auditory cortex neurons"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-37

  Dinse, Hubert R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 3042647480     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00213.2004     Document Type: Editorial

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