Do sleeping birds sing? Population coding and learning in the bird song system

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2001, Pages 319-331

  Margoliash, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0035783508     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)30021-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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