Different neuroplasticity for task targets and distractors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Spingath, Elsie Y ^a   Kang, Hyun Sug ^a   Plummer, Thane ^a   Blake, David T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL SUMMATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; LEARNING; MACACA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MACACA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 79551642137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015342     Document Type: Article

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