Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-228

  Prather, Jonathan F ^a   Nowicki, Stephen ^a,b   Anderson, Rindy C ^b   Peters, Susan ^b   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EXPERIENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURONS; SPARROWS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 58849086388     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2246     Document Type: Article

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