Interruption of a basal ganglia-forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6779, 2000, Pages 762-766

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BASAL GANGLION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASAL GANGLIA; COCHLEA; DEAFNESS; DENERVATION; FEEDBACK; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SONGBIRDS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0034643335     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35008083     Document Type: Article

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