Plasticity of temporal pattern codes for vocalization stimuli in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4785-4795

  Schnupp, Jan W H ^a   Hall, Thomas M ^a   Kokelaar, Rory F ^a   Ahmed, Bashir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Behavior; Sound; Temporal coding; Training; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FERRET; HEARING; MARMOSET; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; VOCALIZATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALLITHRIX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FERRETS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33646906465     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4330-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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