Automated auditory recognition training and testing

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-293

  Gess, Austen ^a   Schneider, David M ^b   Vyas, Akshat ^b   Woolley, Sarah M N ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Automated training paradigm; Go nogo; Neuroethology; Operant discrimination; Songbird; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HARDWARE; LABORATORY METHOD; NEUROLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; RECOGNITION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SONG; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 79960555167     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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