Individual vocal recognition and the effect of partial lesions to HVc on discrimination, learning, and categorization of conspecific song in adult songbirds

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-133

  Genter, Timothy Q ^a,b   Hulse, Stewart H ^a   Bentley, George E ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Birdsong; Excitotoxic lesion; HVc; Individual recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033970628     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(200001)42:1<117::AID-NEU11>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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