Adaptive, behaviorally gated, persistent encoding of task-relevant auditory information in ferret frontal cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1011-1019

  Fritz, Jonathan B ^a   David, Stephen V ^a   Radtke Schuller, Susanne ^b   Yin, Pingbo ^a   Shamma, Shihab A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FERRETS; FRONTAL LOBE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 77955030869     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2598     Document Type: Article

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