How songbirds deal with large amounts of serial information: Retrieval rules suggest a hierarchical song memory

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 487-500

  Todt, Dietmar ^a   Hultsch, Henrike ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 0000689304     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050498     Document Type: Article

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