Learning to hear: plasticity of auditory cortical processing.

Journal article

Sensory experience and auditory cortex plasticity are intimately related. This relationship is most striking during infancy when changes in sensory input can have profound effects on the functional organization of the developing cortex. But a considerable degree of plasticity is retained throughout life, as demonstrated by the cortical reorganization that follows damage to the sensory periphery or by the more controversial changes in response properties that are thought to accompany perceptua...

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Authors: Dahmen, J; King, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Current opinion in neurobiology
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 456-464
• Publication date: 2007-08-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.07.004
• EISSN: 1873-6882
• ISSN: 0959-4388
• Language: English
• Keywords: Auditory Cortex; Learning; Auditory Perception; Animals; Auditory Pathways; Acoustic Stimulation; Humans; Hearing; Neuronal Plasticity