Task engagement selectively modulates neural correlations in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7565-7574

  Downer, Joshua D ^a   Niwa, Mamiko ^a,b   Sutter, Mitchell L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Noise correlation; Population coding; Signal correlation; Tuning correlation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING TEST; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REWARD; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84929327671     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4094-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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