Birdsong: Can an old bird change his tune?

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 18, 1999, Pages

  White, Stephanie A ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERI;

AGE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN MAPPING; COURTSHIP; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COURTSHIP; FEEDBACK; LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; TAPE RECORDING; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033598220     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80440-0     Document Type: Article

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