Waiting periods versus early innervation: The development of axonal connections in the zebra finch song system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11 I, 1994, Pages 6532-6543

  Mooney, Richard ^a,b   Rao, Mahendra ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

caudal nucleus of the ventral hyperstriatum (HVc); lateral portion of magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum (L MAN); robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA); song control nuclei; waiting compartment; zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0027938075     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-11-06532.1994     Document Type: Article

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