Speech training alters tone frequency tuning in rat primary auditory cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 258, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-178

  Engineer, Crystal T ^a   Perez, Claudia A ^a   Carraway, Ryan S ^a   Chang, Kevin Q ^a   Roland, Jarod L ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Primary auditory cortex; Speech; Training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONSONANT; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MALE; PHONETICS; RATS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887152045     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.021     Document Type: Article

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