Perceptual and neuronal boundary learned from higher-order stimulus probabilities

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3699-3705

  Köver, Hania ^a   Gill, Kirt ^a   Tseng, Yi Ting L ^a   Bao, Shaowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; LEARNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84874214445     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3166-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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