Toward a song code: Evidence for a syllabic representation in the canary brain

Neuron

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 359-371

  Ribeiro, Sidarta ^a   Cecchi, Guillermo A ^a   Magnasco, Marcelo O ^a   Mello, Claudio V ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITUATION; HEARING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032142916     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80545-0     Document Type: Article

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