Auditory cortical detection and discrimination correlates with communicative significance.

Plasticity studies suggest that behavioral relevance can change the cortical processing of trained or conditioned sensory stimuli. However, whether this occurs in the context of natural communication, where stimulus significance is acquired through social interaction, has not been well investigated,...

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Main Authors: Robert C Liu, Christoph E Schreiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1891324?pdf=render