Anterior forebrain neurons develop selectivity by an intermediate stage of birdsong learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 6447-6462

  Solis, Michele M ^a   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area X; Auditory selectivity; Experience dependent plasticity; LMAN; Order selectivity; Song learning; Song selectivity; Temporal processing; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING;

EID: 0030797146     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-16-06447.1997     Document Type: Article

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