Identification of a forebrain motor programming network for the learned song of zebra finches

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11 II, 1994, Pages 6924-6934

  Vu, Eric T ^a   Mazurek, Mark E ^a   Kuo, Yu Chien ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

birdsong; brain electrical stimulation; central pattern generation; motor control; motor programming; song system; songbird; vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTRODE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0028032436     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-11-06924.1994     Document Type: Article

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