Context-specific reweighting of auditory spatial cues following altered experience during development.

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BACKGROUND: Neural systems must weight and integrate different sensory cues in order to make decisions. However, environmental conditions often change over time, altering the reliability of different cues and therefore the optimal way for combining them. To explore how cue integration develops in dynamic environments, we examined the effects on auditory spatial processing of rearing ferrets with localization cues that were modified via a unilateral earplug, interspersed with brief periods of ...

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Authors: Keating, P; Dahmen, J; King, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Current biology : CB
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 1291-1299
• Publication date: 2013-07-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.045
• EISSN: 1879-0445
• ISSN: 0960-9822
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cues; Acoustic Stimulation; Neuronal Plasticity; Hearing; Animals; Auditory Cortex; Sound Localization; Ferrets