An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6902, 2002, Pages 65-70

  Hahnloser, Richard H R ^a,b   Kozhevnikov, Alexay A ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

NEURAL ACTIVITY;

NEUROLOGY;

BIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; STEREOTYPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEURONS; SLEEP; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037026530     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00974     Document Type: Article

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