Developmentally degraded directional selectivity of the auditory cortex can be restored by auditory discrimination training in adults

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 596-602

  Pan, Yan ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a   Cai, Rui ^a   Zhou, Xiaoming ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directional selectivity; Primary auditory cortex (A1); Pulsed noise exposure; Rat; Sensory discrimination training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HEARING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NEURONS; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 80052967395     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.033     Document Type: Article

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