Sentences with phrase «mouse auditory cortex»

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Finally, the researchers tested this circuitry in live animals, artificially turning on the motor neurons in anesthetized mice and then looking to see how the auditory cortex responded.

In the current study, researchers found to their surprise that most of the nerve cells in auditory cortex neurons that stimulate brain activity (excitatory) had signaled less (had «weaker» activity) when the mice expected and got a reward.

Cross section of the auditory cortex of a mouse brain.

This impairs learning in the auditory cortex, meaning old mice can't discriminate between two tones that are close in pitch.