Cortical discrimination of complex natural stimuli: Can single neurons match behavior?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 582-589

  Wang, Le ^a,b   Narayan, Rajiv ^a,b   Graña, Gilberto ^a,b   Shamir, Maoz ^a,b,c   Sen, Kamal ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Behavior; Birdsong; Discrimination; Field L; Speech

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FINCHES; NEURONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33846445281     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3699-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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