Learning of auditory equivalence classes for vowels by rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 348-359

  Eriksson, Jan L ^a   Villa, Alessandro E P ^a,b,c  

^a Neuroheuristic Research Group   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Auditory perception; Categorization; GO NOGO reaction task; Vowel discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; LEARNING; RODENT; SOUND VELOCITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEARING; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHONETICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750216990     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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