Lesions of the auditory cortex impair azimuthal sound localization and its recalibration in ferrets

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1209-1225

  Nodal, Fernando R ^a   Kacelnik, Oliver ^a   Bajo, Victoria M ^a   Bizley, Jennifer K ^a   Moore, David R ^a   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FERRETS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 77949712414     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00991.2009     Document Type: Article

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