Tuning the brain by learning and by stimulation of the nucleus basalis

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 271-273

  Weinberger, Norman M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW;

EID: 0032146349     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01200-5     Document Type: Article

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