Response properties of auditory activated cells in the occipital cortex of the blind mole rat: An electrophysiological study

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 403-413

  Sadka, R S ^a   Wollberg, Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory responses; Mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi; Occipital cortex

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BLINDNESS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLE RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOLE RATS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 3242705994     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-004-0506-7     Document Type: Article

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