Inactivation of the left auditory cortex impairs temporal discrimination in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-130

  Rybalko, Natalia ^a   Šuta, Daniel ^a,b   Popelář, Jiří ^a   Syka, Josef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Conditioning; Hemispheric lateralization; Rat; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISEASES, CENTRAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA AGONISTS; MUSCIMOL; RATS;

EID: 77249092151     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.01.028     Document Type: Article

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