Auditory discrimination learning and knowledge transfer in mice depends on task difficulty

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 8481-8485

  Kurt, Simone ^a   Ehret, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive skill learning; Go no go paradigm; Hard to easy effect; Shuttlebox; Stimulus generalization

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKILL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MICE;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77952384625     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912357107     Document Type: Article

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