Learning and generalization on asynchrony and order tasks at sound offset: Implications for underlying neural circuitry

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-20

  Mossbridge, Julia A ^a   Scissors, Beth N ^a   Wright, Beverly A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HEARING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 38649099690     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.573608     Document Type: Article

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