Physiological and behavioral studies of spatial coding in the auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 106-115

  King, Andrew J ^a   Bajo, Victoria M ^a   Bizley, Jennifer K ^a   Campbell, Robert A A ^a   Nodal, Fernando R ^a   Schulz, Andreas L ^a   Schnupp, Jan W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory localization; Binaural; Corticofugal pathway; Ferret; Plasticity; Reversible inactivation; Training; Virtual acoustic space

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FERRET; HEARING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FERRETS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 34250356721     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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