Auditory Cortical Areas Activated by Slow Frequency-Modulated Sounds in Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Honma, Yuusuke ^a,b   Tsukano, Hiroaki ^a   Horie, Masao ^b   Ohshima, Shinsuke ^b   Tohmi, Manavu ^a   Kubota, Yamato ^b   Takahashi, Kuniyuki ^b   Hishida, Ryuichi ^a   Takahashi, Sugata ^b   Shibuki, Katsuei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR AUDITORY FIELD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SLOW FREQUENCY MODULATION; ULTRASONIC FIELD IN THE BELT CORTEX; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE; MICE; SOUND;

EID: 84880406413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068113     Document Type: Article

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