Natural restoration of critical period plasticity in the juvenile and adult primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5625-5634

  Zhou, Xiaoming ^a,b   Panizzutti, Rogerio ^b,c   de Villers Sidani, Étienne ^b,d   Madeira, Caroline ^c   Merzenich, Michael M ^b  

^a B326 Science Building   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 79955782896     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6470-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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