Nicotinic modulation of tone-evoked responses in auditory cortex reflects the strength of prior auditory learning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-146

  Liang, Kevin ^a   Poytress, Bonnie Sue ^a   Weinberger, Norman M ^a   Metherate, Raju ^a  

^a Center for Immunology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Active avoidance; Auditory cortex; Behavior; Electrophysiology; Learning; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 44649157029     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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