Auditory responses in the vocal motor system of budgerigars

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-94

  Plummer, Thane K ^a   Striedter, Georg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory feedback; Birdsong; Neurophysiology; Parrots; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; PARROTS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033957433     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(200001)42:1<79::AID-NEU8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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