Little is known about the mechanisms that allow the cortex to selectively improve the neural
representations of behaviorally important stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli. Diffuse …

The electrophysiological properties of sensory neurons in the adult cortex are not immutable
but can change in response to alterations of sensory input caused by manipulation of …

The cerebral cortex of the human brain is a sheet of about 10 billion neurons divided into
discrete subdivisions or areas that process particular aspects of sensation, movement, and …

Receptive fields of sensory cortical neurons are plastic, changing in response to alterations
of neural activity or sensory experience,,,,,,,,,,,. In this way, cortical representations of the …

The neocortex receives information about the environment and the rest of the brain through
pathways from the thalamus. These pathways have frequency-dependent properties that …

Synapses and receptive fields of the cerebral cortex are plastic. However, changes to
specific inputs must be coordinated within neural networks to ensure that excitability and …

The pharmacological basis of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganizations
remains elusive. We induced perceptual learning by Hebbian coactivation of the skin of the …

One of the basic functions of the cerebral cortex is the analysis and representation of
relations among the components of sensory and motor patterns. It is proposed that the cortex …

INTRODUCTION Arguably one of the biggest mysteries in neuroscience is how the brain
stores long-term memories. Since the 1950s, it has been well established that long-term …

The external nucleus of the inferior colliculus in the barn owl contains an auditory map of
space that is based on the tuning of neurons for interaural differences in the timing of sound …