Motivation and intelligence drive auditory perceptual learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Amitay, Sygal ^a   Halliday, Lorna ^a,b   Taylor, Jenny ^a   Sohoglu, Ediz ^a   Moore, David R ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK; HEARING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTIVATION;

EID: 79952116858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009816     Document Type: Article

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