R. Rajan et Drf. Irvine, NEURONAL RESPONSES ACROSS CORTICAL FIELD A1 IN PLASTICITY INDUCED BY PERIPHERAL AUDITORY ORGAN DAMAGE, Audiology & neuro-otology, 3(2-3), 1998, pp. 123-144
The adult auditory cortex is capable of a plastic reorganization of it
s tonotopic map after damage to restricted parts of the cochlear senso
ry epithelium. We examine the precise conditions of cochlear damage re
quired to demonstrate such plasticity in the primary auditory cortex (
Al) of the cat and the changes observed in neuronal responses in the A
l which has reorganized in plasticity of the tonotopic map. From these
data we attempt to predict the conditions required for similar plasti
city to occur in humans after coachlear damage.