Behaviorally gated reduction of spontaneous discharge can improve detection thresholds in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4076-4081

  Buran, Bradley N ^a   von Trapp, Gardiner ^a   Sanes, Dan H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Auditory perception; Detection threshold; Expectation; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXPECTATION; HEARING; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DETECTION THRESHOLD; EXPECTATION; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GERBILLINAE; NEURONS; SENSORY GATING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84896799084     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4825-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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