Birdsong and human speech: Common themes and mechanisms

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue , 1999, Pages 567-631

  Doupe, Allison J ^a   Kuhl, Patricia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Critical period; Innate; Learning; Perception; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033005856     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.22.1.567     Document Type: Review

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