Fast learning of simple perceptual discriminations reduces brain activation in working memory and in high-level auditory regions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1308-1321

  Daikhin, Luba ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930173951     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00786     Document Type: Article

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