Axonal connections of the high vocal center and surrounding cortical regions in juvenile and adult male zebra finches

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118-138

  Foster, Elizabeth F ^a   Bottjer, Sarah W ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Development; Songbirds; Striatum; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BIOCYTIN; DEXTRAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTRANS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FLUORESCENT DYES; LYSINE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032551531     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980720)397:1<118::AID-CNE9>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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