Auditory cortical plasticity in learning to discriminate modulation rate

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2663-2672

  Van Wassenhove, Virginie ^a   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Evoked magnetic fields; Gamma band; Learning; MEG; Plasticity; Synchronization; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847776336     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4844-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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