A review of the generalization of auditory learning

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1515, 2009, Pages 301-311

  Wright, Beverly A ^a   Zhang, Yuxuan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Generalization; Human; Learning; Perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; HEARING; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 58149240037     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0262     Document Type: Review

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