Brief hearing loss disrupts binaural integration during two early critical periods of auditory cortex development

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Polley, Daniel B ^a,b,c   Thompson, John H ^b   Guo, Wei ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; HEARING; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PLASTICITY; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; POLOXAMER;

EID: 84885107063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3547     Document Type: Article

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