Behavioral training restores temporal processing in auditory cortex of long-deaf cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2423-2436

  Vollmer, Maike ^a,b   Beitel, Ralph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Long term deafness; Neuroplasticity; Perceptual learning; Primary auditory cortex; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIORAL TRAINING; CELL DENSITY; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; TEMPORAL PROCESSING; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; CELL SURVIVAL; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPIRAL GANGLION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80755171265     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00565.2011     Document Type: Article

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