Developmental experience alters information coding in auditory midbrain and forebrain neurons

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 235-252

  Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Hauber, Mark E ^b,c   Theunissen, Frederic E ^d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferior colliculus; Neural coding; Song; Songbird; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INFORMATION THEORY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77649156775     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20783     Document Type: Article

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