Associative representational plasticity in the auditory cortex: Resolving conceptual and empirical problems

Debates in Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 85-98

  Weinberger, Norman M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Conditioning; Learning; Memory; Plasticity; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 37249093131     PISSN: 15598314     EISSN: 15598357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11559-007-9011-9     Document Type: Article

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