Table 2.

Receptive field plasticity in the Six Task trained rats.

Group	Threshold (dB)	BW10 (octaves)	BW20 (octaves)	BW30 (octaves)	BW40 (octaves)	Onset Latency (ms)	Driven Rate (spikes/tone)
Naïve Control	16.7	1.3	1.8	2.1	2.4	16.5	3.0
Passive Exposure	14.3	1.3	1.8	2.1	2.4	14.9	3.2
One Task Gender	15.7	1.4	1.9	2.3	2.5	15.8	3.3
One Task Voicing	18.1	1.2	1.6	1.9	2.2	16.1	3.3
Three Tasks Vowel	19.6	1.4	1.8	2.1	2.4	17.1	3.4
Six Tasks Consonants	22.3*	1.5	2.2*	2.6*	2.8*	12.2#	2.1#
Six Tasks Consonant Vowel	19.1	1.8*	2.4*	2.8*	3.1*	11.9#	2.0#

^*Numbers marked with a star are significantly increased compared to experimentally naïve rats (p < 0.05)

^#while numbers marked with a pound sign are significantly decreased compared to experimentally naïve rats (p < 0.05).