Auditory feedback in learning and maintenance of vocal behaviour

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-40

  Brainard, Michael S ^a   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034303639     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35036205     Document Type: Article

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