Learning and generalization of auditory temporal-interval discrimination in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3956-3963

  Wright, Beverly A ^a,b   Buonomano, Dean V ^a   Mahncke, Henry W ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory processing; hearing; human; perceptual learning; psychophysics; temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030943898     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03956.1997     Document Type: Article

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