Auditory artificial grammar learning in Macaque and Marmoset monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 18825-18835

  Wilson, Benjamin ^a,b   Slater, Heather ^a,b   Kikuchi, Yukiko ^a,b   Milne, Alice E ^a,b   Marslen Wilson, William D ^c   Smith, Kenny ^d   Petkov, Christopher I ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALLITRICHINAE; EYE TRACKING; GRAMMAR; HABITUATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CALLITHRIX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY; VIDEORECORDING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84888251472     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2414-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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