Lesions of the anterior forebrain song control pathway in female canaries affect song perception in an operant task

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Burt, John M ^a   Lent, Karin L ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior forebrain pathway; Auditory; Bird song; Canary; Female; IMAN; Perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; LEARNING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CANARIES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; NEOSTRIATUM; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 0033975474     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(200001)42:1<1::AID-NEU1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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