Sparse and Background-Invariant Coding of Vocalizations in Auditory Scenes

Neuron

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 141-152

  Schneider, DavidM ^a,b   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FINCHES; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84880022272     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.038     Document Type: Article

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