Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal receptive fields in primary auditory cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1216-1223

  Fritz, Jonathan ^a   Shamma, Shihab ^a   Elhilali, Mounya ^a   Klein, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; FERRET; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; SPECTROTEMPORAL RESPONSE FIELD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FERRETS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242353116     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1141     Document Type: Article

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