Age- and behavior-related variation in volumes of song control nuclei in male European starlings

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-339

  Bernard, Daniel J ^a   Eens, Marcel ^b   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

activity dependent plasticity; neural development; song bout length; song repertoire; songbird

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0029900090     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199607)30:3<329::AID-NEU2>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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