Differences in the complexity of song tutoring cause differences in the amount learned and in dendritic spine density in a songbird telencephalic song control nucleus

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 274-281

  Airey, David C ^a   Kroodsma, Donald E ^b   Devoogd, Timothy J ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; SPINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TELENCEPHALON; VERTEBRATE; VOCAL CORD;

EID: 0034100572     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1999.3937     Document Type: Article

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