Remodeling the cortex in memory: Increased use of a learning strategy increases the representational area of relevant acoustic cues

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-144

  Bieszczad, Kasia M ^a   Weinberger, Norman M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Neurophysiology; Primary auditory cortex; Receptive field; Representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 77955561324     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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