Lesions in the budgerigar vocal control nucleus NLc affect production, but not memory, of English words and natural vocalizations

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 421, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 437-460

  Lavenex, Pamela Banta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian vocalizations; Motor control; Speech production; Vocal control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DENERVATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARROTS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0034641029     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000612)421:4<437::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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