Learning of new sound categories shapes neural response patterns in human auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 13273-13280

  Ley, Anke ^a,b   Vroomen, Jean ^a   Hausfeld, Lars ^b   Valente, Giancarlo ^b   De Weerd, Peter ^b   Formisano, Elia ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866357372     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0584-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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