Active engagement improves primary auditory cortical Neurons' ability to discriminate temporal modulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 9323-9334

  Niwa, Mamiko ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   O'Connor, Kevin N ^a   Sutter, Mitchell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE; TASK ENGAGEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84863424933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5832-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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