Perceptual learning directs auditory cortical map reorganization through top-down influences

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4970-4982

  Polley, Daniel B ^a   Steinberg, Elizabeth E ^b   Merzenich, Michael M ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Conditioning; Cortex; Plasticity; Reward; Topographic map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; TONOTOPY; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646930061     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3771-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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