Temporal specificity of perceptual learning in an auditory discrimination task

Learning and Memory

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-147

  Karmarkar, Uma R ^a   Buonomano, Dean V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037360961     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.55503     Document Type: Article

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