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Early auditory enrichment with music enhances auditory discrimination learning and alters NR2B protein expression in rat auditory cortex

Xu J, Yu L, Cai R, Zhang J, Sun X. · Behavioural brain research · 2009

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“Our findings suggest that early auditory enrichment with music influences NMDA-mediated neural plasticity, which results in enhanced auditory discrimination learning”

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Early auditory enrichment with music enhances auditory discrimination learning and alters NR2B protein expression in rat auditory cortex
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“Our findings suggest that early auditory enrichment with music influences NMDA-mediated neural plasticity, which results in enhanced auditory discrimination learning”

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