Functional anatomy of forebrain vocal control pathways in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 368-385

  Brauth, Steven E ^a   Heaton, James T ^a   Shea, Stephen D ^a   Durand, Sarah E ^a   Hall, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOREBRAIN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; SOUND; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS;

EID: 0030990998     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51933.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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