Neuronal populations and single cells representing learned auditory objects

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6949, 2003, Pages 669-674

  Gentner, Timothy Q ^a   Margoliash, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

VOCALIZATIONS;

CELLS;

AUDITORY CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0043240445     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01731     Document Type: Article

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