Processing of broadband stimuli across A1 layers in young and aged rats

Hearing Research

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 79-85

  Hughes, Larry F ^a   Turner, Jeremy G ^a,b   Parrish, Jennifer L ^a   Caspary, Donald M ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Aging; Auditory; Auditory cortex; Broadband noise; Cortex; GABA; Inhibition; Noise; Physiology; Rats; Response properties

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEARING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; STEADY STATE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEURAL INHIBITION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952672066     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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