Long-term, partially-reversible reorganization of frequency tuning in mature cat primary auditory cortex can be induced by passive exposure to moderate-level sounds

Hearing Research

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 24-40

  Pienkowski, Martin ^a,b   Eggermont, Jos J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Extracellular recording; Local field potential; Passive sound exposure; Plasticity; Receptive field; Single unit activity; Tonotopic map

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349410224     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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