The descending corticocollicular pathway mediates learning-induced auditory plasticity

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-260

  Bajo, Victoria M ^a   Nodal, Fernando R ^a   Moore, David R ^a,b   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KILLING; CHROMATOPHORE; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FERRET; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CUES; EAR; FERRETS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 75549090283     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2466     Document Type: Article

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