Cortical tonotopic map plasticity and behavior

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2117-2128

  Pienkowski, Martin ^a   Eggermont, Jos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audition; Auditory cortex; Behavior; Classical conditioning; Development; Discrimination training; Plasticity; Sensory systems; Somatosensation; Sound exposure; Tonotopic map; Vision

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CONDITIONING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE DISEASE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND INTENSITY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TINNITUS; TONOTOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING LOSS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 80051513084     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.02.002     Document Type: Review

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