Contributions of the thalamocortical system towards sound-specific auditory plasticity

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2155-2161

  Liu, Xiuping ^a   Basavaraj, Sidhesh ^a   Krishnan, Ramya ^a   Yan, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Functional map plasticity; Long term potentiation depression; Receptive field plasticity; Thalamocortical; Tonotopic topographic

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TONOTOPY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 80053914616     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.02.010     Document Type: Review

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