The metal manganese is a potent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent that is
essential in cell biology. Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) is …

Highlights•Cortical maps of different stimulus and response aspects undergo plastic
changes.•Expression and mechanisms of different plastic processes are …

OBJECTIVE: Deficient prosody is a hallmark of the pragmatic (socially contextualized)
language impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Prosody communicates emotion …

Degraded sensory experience during critical periods of development can have adverse
effects on brain function. In the auditory system, conductive hearing loss associated with …

Development of the human auditory brainstem is thought to be primarily complete by the age
of∼ 2 years, such that subsequent sensory plasticity is confined primarily to the cortex …

We investigated the development of L2/3 pyramidal cell (PC) circuitry in juvenile mice from
postnatal day 10 (P10) to P29. Using whole cell recordings in an in vitro thalamocortical …

OBJECTIVE: The comparatively poor music appreciation in patients with cochlear implants
might be ascribed to an inadequate exposure to music; however, the effect of training on …

Improvements in digital amplification, cochlear implants, and other innovations have
extended the potential for improving hearing function; yet, there remains a need for further …

Under normal hearing conditions, comparisons of the sounds reaching each ear are critical
for accurate sound localization. Asymmetric hearing loss should therefore degrade spatial …

Although the auditory system has limited information processing resources, the acoustic
environment is infinitely variable. To properly encode the natural environment, the …