Experience-dependent plasticity in pitch encoding: From brainstem to auditory cortex

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 498-502

  Krishnan, Ananthanarayan ^a   Gandour, Jackson Thomas ^a   Bidelman, Gavin M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

auditory brainstem; experience dependent plasticity; feedback; feedforward; frequency following response; functional ear asymmetry; language; mismatch negativity; music; pitch

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN STEM; CERVICAL SPINE; COGNITION; EAR; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LANGUAGE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MUSIC; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 84861094921     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328353764d     Document Type: Review

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