Auditory thalamus and auditory cortex are equally modulated by context during flexible categorization of sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5291-5301

  Jaramillo, Santiago ^a,b   Borges, Katharine ^a,c   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Categorization; Flexibility; Reward; Stimulus action association

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

AUDITORY; CATEGORIZATION; FLEXIBILITY; REWARD; STIMULUS-ACTION ASSOCIATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SOUND;

EID: 84899491895     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4888-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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