Interhemispheric coordination of premotor neural activity during singing in adult zebra finches

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9088-9098

  Vu, Eric T ^a,c   Schmidt, Marc F ^b   Mazurek, Mark E ^b,d  

^a Barrow Neurological Institute   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Interhemispheric coordination; Motor coordination; Motor learning; Song learning; Song system; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SINGING; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0032211088     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09088.1998     Document Type: Article

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