What songbirds teach us about learning

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6886, 2002, Pages 351-358

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY; PLASTICITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NEUROGENESIS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIRD; SONG;

BRAIN REGION; FOREBRAIN; HEARING ACUITY; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; SYNAPSES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 0037118078     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/417351a     Document Type: Review

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