Taking advantage of behavioral changes during development and training to assess sensory coding mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-154

  Sarro, Emma C ^a   Rosen, Merri J ^b   Sanes, Dan H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Development; Neurophysiology; Perception; Training

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; HEARING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSORY CORTEX; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE;

EID: 79955530272     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06023.x     Document Type: Article

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