Environmental enrichment enhances directional selectivity of primary auditory cortical neurons in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 162-165

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Cai, Rui ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a   Pan, Yan ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex plasticity; Auditory directional selectivity; Environmental enrichment (EE); Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 68349137813     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.054     Document Type: Article

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