Probabilistic encoding of vocalizations in macaque ventral lateral prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 43, 2006, Pages 11023-11033

  Averbeck, Bruno B ^a,b   Romanski, Lizabeth M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; Hidden Markov model; Macaque; Prefrontal cortex; Primate; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33751110885     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3466-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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