Developmental plasticity in neural circuits for a learned behavior

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue , 1997, Pages 459-481

  Bottjer, Sarah W ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

neurotrophins; sexual differentiation; songbirds; vocal learning; zebra finch

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 0031043394     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.20.1.459     Document Type: Review

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