Distinct core thalamocortical pathways to central and dorsal primary auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 95-104

  Read, Heather L ^a,b,c   Nauen, David W ^a,d   Escabí, Monty A ^a,c   Miller, Lee M ^a,e   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a   Winer, Jeffery A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND INTENSITY; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 79953313381     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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