Response Variance in Functional Maps: Neural Darwinism Revisited

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a,b,c   Yokota, Ryo ^a   Kanzaki, Ryohei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE VARIANCE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84880066686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068705     Document Type: Article

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