Environmental noise exposure degrades normal listening processes

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaoming ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RAT; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84864299600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1849     Document Type: Article

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