Engaging in an auditory task suppresses responses in auditory cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 646-654

  Otazu, Gonzalo H ^a   Tai, Lung Hao ^a,b   Yang, Yang ^a,b   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOMNOLENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL;

EID: 67349121625     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2306     Document Type: Article

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