Quantifying song bout production during zebra finch sensory-motor learning suggests a sensitive period for vocal practice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 57-65

  Johnson, Frank ^a   Soderstrom, Ken ^a   Whitney, Osceola ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; Juvenile; Learning; Sensitive period; Songbird; Vocal production

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; SKILL; SONGBIRD; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037061536     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00374-6     Document Type: Article

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