Hierarchical and serial processing in the spatial auditory cortical pathway is degraded by natural aging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 14795-14804

  Juarez Salinas, Dina L ^a   Engle, James R ^a   Navarro, Xochi O ^a   Recanzone, Gregg H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049519494     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3393-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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