Early auditory enrichment with music enhances auditory discrimination learning and alters NR2B protein expression in rat auditory cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-54

  Xu, Jinghong ^a   Yu, Liping ^a   Cai, Rui ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory discrimination learning; Auditory enrichment; Behavior; Inferior colliculus; NR2B protein; Rat

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MUSIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 56549107693     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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