Emergent selectivity for task-relevant stimuli in higher-order auditory cortex

Neuron

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-499

  Atiani, Serin ^a,b   David, Stephen V ^a,c   Elgueda, Diego ^a   Locastro, Michael ^a   Radtke Schuller, Susanne ^d   Shamma, Shihab A ^a,e   Fritz, Jonathan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; FERRETS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84898676661     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.02.029     Document Type: Article

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