Stability and plasticity of auditory brainstem function across the lifespan

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1415-1426

  Skoe, Erika ^a,b,g   Krizman, Jennifer ^a,b,e   Anderson, Samira ^a,b,f   Kraus, Nina ^a,b,c,d  

^a Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute for Neuroscience   (United States)

^d Department of Neurobiology and Physiology ^*  (United States)

^e Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory; auditory brainstem response; development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; LIFESPAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; AGE; AGING; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930335896     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht311     Document Type: Article

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