Intermittent exposure with moderate-level sound impairs central auditory function of mature animals without concomitant hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 30-35

  Pienkowski, Martin ^a   Eggermont, Jos J ^a  

^a 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

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD SHIFT; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIMULATION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SOUND;

EID: 76949094219     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.12.025     Document Type: Article

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