Effects of early binocular enucleation on auditory and somatosensory coding in the superior colliculus of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1191, Issue , 2008, Pages 84-95

  Champoux, François ^a   Bacon, Benoit A ^a,b   Lepore, Franco ^a   Guillemot, Jean Paul ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audition; Cutaneous senses; Electrophysiology; Multisensory integration; Plasticity; Reorganization; Spatial localization; Spatial representation; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VIBRISSA; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EYE ENUCLEATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE; VISION, BINOCULAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 38349022320     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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