The selectivity of sexual responses to song displays: Effects of partial chemical lesion of the HVC in female canaries

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 151-159

  Del Negro, C ^a   Gahr, M ^b   Leboucher, G ^a   Kreutzer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Female canaries; HVC; Ibotenate lesion; Sexual responses; Song stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CANARIES; FEMALE; NEOSTRIATUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032212424     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00009-6     Document Type: Article

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