Effects of neonatal partial deafness and chronic intracochlear electrical stimulation on auditory and electrical response characteristics in primary auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 257, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 93-105

  Fallon, James B ^a,b   Shepherd, Robert K ^a,b   Brown, Mel ^c   Irvine, Dexter R F ^a,c  

^a BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cochlear implant; Electrical stimulation; Neural prosthesis; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING LOSS; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ETHACRYNIC ACID; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; KANAMYCIN; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349556108     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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