Cortical speech-evoked response patterns in multiple auditory fields are correlated with behavioral discrimination ability

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 177-189

  Centanni, T M ^a   Engineer, C T ^a   Kilgard, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Diversity; Parallel hierarchy; Rat; Spike timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECONDARY AUDITORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AUDITORY CORTEX; DIVERSITY; PARALLEL HIERARCHY; RAT; SPIKE TIMING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURONS; PHONETICS; RATS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879651845     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00092.2013     Document Type: Article

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