Reorganization in processing of spectral and temporal input in the rat posterior auditory field induced by environmental enrichment

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1457-1475

  Jakkamsetti, Vikram ^a   Chang, Kevin Q ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Nonprimary cortex; Phase locked responses; Receptive field; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84857337386     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01057.2010     Document Type: Article

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