Multisensory processing via early cortical stages: Connections of the primary auditory cortical field with other sensory systems

Neuroscience

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1065-1083

  Budinger, E ^a,b   Heil, P ^a   Hess, A ^a,c   Scheich, H ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

anatomy; confocal laser scanning microscopy; corticofugal modulation; crossmodal; multimodal; rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPIRIFORM NUCLEUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GERBIL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOTEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS SUPRAGENICULATE NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCEIN; GERBILLINAE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SENSATION; THALAMUS;

EID: 33847215909     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.035     Document Type: Article

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