Early experience determines how the senses will interact

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 921-926

  Wallace, Mark T ^a,b   Stein, Barry E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846442862     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00497.2006     Document Type: Article

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