Speech sound discrimination training improves auditory cortex responses in a rat model of autism

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Engineer, Crystal T ^a   Centanni, Tracy M ^a   Im, Kwok W ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Autism; Intervention; Plasticity; Rehabilitation; Speech; Valproate

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTISM; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH THERAPY; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAINING;

EID: 84905502439     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00137     Document Type: Article

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