Pairing speech sounds with vagus nerve stimulation drives stimulus-specific cortical plasticity

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 637-644

  Engineer, Crystal T ^a   Engineer, Navzer D ^a,b   Riley, Jonathan R ^a   Seale, Jonathan D ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b MicroTransponder Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Primary auditory cortex; Speech; Vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPEECH DISORDERS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84942980677     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.01.408     Document Type: Article

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