Task Difficulty and Performance Induce Diverse Adaptive Patterns in Gain and Shape of Primary Auditory Cortical Receptive Fields

Neuron

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 467-480

  Atiani, Serin ^a   Elhilali, Mounya ^c   David, Stephen V ^b   Fritz, Jonathan B ^a,b   Shamma, Shihab A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FERRETS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 59649098253     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.12.027     Document Type: Article

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