Adult plasticity in multisensory neurons: Short-term experience-dependent changes in the superior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 15910-15922

  Yu, Liping ^a   Stein, Barry E ^b   Rowland, Benjamin A ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPOSURE; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449177414     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4041-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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