The article reviews evidence for sensitive periods in the sensory systems and considers their
neuronal mechanisms from the viewpoint of the system's neuroscience. It reviews the …

Many, or most, tinnitus models rely on increased central gain in the auditory pathway as all
or part of the explanation, in that central auditory neurones deprived of their usual sensory …

Animals require the ability to ignore sensory stimuli that have no consequence yet respond
to the same stimuli when they become useful. However, the brain circuits that govern this …

Sensory and environmental manipulations affect the development of sensory systems.
Higher-order auditory representations (auditory categories or “objects”) evolve with …

Cochlear implants have provided hearing to more than 120,000 deaf people. Recent
surgical developments include direct electrical stimulation of the brain, bilateral implants and …

Neural mechanisms that detect changes in the auditory environment appear to rely on
processes that predict sensory state. Here we propose that in tinnitus there is a disparity …

Ranulfo Romo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico et al., 2012). Attentional
effects on the auditory steady state response in tinnitus patients were deemed unlikely …

Tinnitus is the conscious perception of sound heard in the absence of physical sound
sources external or internal to the body, reflected in aberrant neural synchrony of …

The brain's life-long capacity for experience-dependent plasticity allows adaptation to new
environments or to changes in the environment, and to changes in internal brain states such …

Enormous progress has been made in our understanding of adaptive plasticity in the central
auditory system. Experiments on a range of species demonstrate that, in adults, the animal …