Refining cortical representation of sound azimuths by auditory discrimination training

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9693-9698

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Zhao, Yan ^a   Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a   Zhou, Xiaoming ^a  

^a B326 Science Building   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84878489162     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0158-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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