Enduring effects of early structured noise exposure on temporal modulation in the primary auditory cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4423-4428

  Zhou, Xiaoming ^a,b   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Critical period; Temporal modulation transfer function; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; AGING; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41949125285     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800009105     Document Type: Article

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