Degraded auditory processing in a rat model of autism limits the speech representation in non-primary auditory cortex

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 972-986

  Engineer, C T ^a   Centanni, T M ^a   Im, K W ^a   Borland, M S ^a   Moreno, N A ^a   Carraway, R S ^a   Wilson, L G ^a   Kilgard, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Autism; Neurophysiology; Speech; Valproic acid

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; HEARING; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84927570150     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22175     Document Type: Article

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