Brain-generated estradiol drives long-term optimization of auditory coding to enhance the discrimination of communication signals

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3271-3289

  Tremere, Liisa A ^a   Pinaud, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; REACTION TIME; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79952268178     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4355-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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