Early Hearing-Impairment Results in Crossmodal Reorganization of Ferret Core Auditory Cortex
Figure 8
Sources of cortical inputs to core auditory cortices for early hearing-impaired (a) and normal hearing (b) ferrets. On serially arranged () coronal sections through one cortical hemisphere, tracer injection (BDA; solid black area) into core auditory cortex produced retrogradely labeled neurons (1 dot = 1 neuron) primarily within the regions regarded as auditory cortex: on the middle ectosylvian gyrus (MEG) and the posterior aspect of the anterior ectosylvian gyrus (AEG), as well as within the lateral bank of the suprasylvian sulcus (SSS) and into the bank of the pseudosylvian sulcus (PSS). The distribution of labeled neurons is essentially coextensive for hearing-impaired and hearing animals, with no difference in labeling found within somatosensory regions on the suprasylvian (SSG) and anterior ectosylvian gyri. Hearing controls replotted from [13].
