Bilateral ablation of auditory cortex in Mongolian gerbil affects discrimination of frequency modulated tones but not of pure tones

Learning and Memory

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 347-362

  Ohl, Frank W ^a   Wetzel, Wolfram ^a   Wagner, Thomas ^a   Rech, Alexander ^a   Scheich, Henning ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GERBIL; HISTOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GERBILLINAE; MALE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND;

EID: 0032833884     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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