Rapid spectrotemporal plasticity in primary auditory cortex during behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4396-4408

  Yin, Pingbo ^a   Fritz, Jonathan B ^a   Shamma, Shihab A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferrets; Primary auditory cortex; Tone sequence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FERRET; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING TEST;

FERRETS; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; TONE SEQUENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FERRETS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84896310633     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2799-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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