Primate auditory recognition memory performance varies with sound type

Hearing Research

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 64-74

  Ng, Chi Wing ^a   Plakke, Bethany ^a   Poremba, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Different; Macaca mulatta; Monkey; Performance; Rhesus; Same; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 69549103051     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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