Perceptual learning on an auditory frequency discrimination task by cats: Association with changes in primary auditory cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 952-965

  Brown, Mel ^a   Irvine, Dexter R F ^a   Park, Valerie N ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Sharpness of tuning; Tonotopic organization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TONOTOPY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING;

EID: 4344687332     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh056     Document Type: Article

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