A role for maternal physiological state in preserving auditory cortical plasticity for salient infant calls

Neuroscience

Volumn 247, Issue , 2013, Pages 102-116

  Lin, F G ^a   Galindo Leon, E E ^b,c   Ivanova, T N ^b   Mappus, R C ^b   Liu, R C ^b  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Inhibitory plasticity; Maternal behavior; Sensory plasticity; Spontaneous rate; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; PHONOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

A1; AAF; ABRS; ANTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSES; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEST FREQUENCY; BF; CC; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE; FIR; INHIBITORY PLASTICITY; LEAST SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; LFP; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; LSD; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERI-STIMULUS TIME HISTOGRAM; PRIMARY AUDITORY FIELD; PSTH; RMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SENSORY PLASTICITY; SINGLE UNIT; SPONTANEOUS RATE; SU; UF; ULTRASOUND FIELD; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84879456239     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.05.020     Document Type: Article

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