Limitations of the sensitive period for sexual imprinting: Neuroanatomical and behavioral experiments in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 317-322

  Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a   Geißler, Edda ^a   Rollenhagen, Astrid ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Dendritic spines; Development; Neuronal plasticity; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DENDRITES; FEMALE; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0037130378     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00016-5     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. How do sensitive periods arise and what are they for?
2. Control of sensitivity to the environment during development
3. Environmental influences on early development: A comparison of imprinting and cortical plasticity
4. Sexual imprinting as a two-stage process
5. Song learning, filial imprinting, and sexual imprinting: Three variations of a common theme?
6. Stabilization of sexual preferences by sexual experience in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis)
7. Isolation-dependent enhancement of 14C-2-deoxyglucose uptake in the forebrain of male zebra finches
8. The gaping reaction and the development of fear in young zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis)
9. Behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of sexual imprinting in zebra finches
10. Mechanisms of avian imprinting: A review
11. Selective stabilization of developing synapses as a mechanisms for the specification of neuronal networks
12. Ontogenese und plastizität des tectofugalen systems von zebrafinken: Eine neuroanatomische studie zum einfluβ von deprivation
13. The sensitive period for the morphological effects of monocular deprivation in two nuclei of the tectofugal pathway of zebra finches
14. Development of the tectofugal visual system of normal and deprived zebra finches
15. The influence of early experience upon the development of social behaviour in estrildine finches
16. Influence of adult courtship experience on the development of sexual preferences in zebra finch males
17. Sexual preferences of male zebra finches: Effects of early and adult experience
18. The influence of siblings on the development of sexual preferences of male zebra finches
19. Testosterone-dependent plasticity of avian forebrain neurons is not restricted to the song control system
20. Sexual imprinting as a two stage process: Mechanisms of information storage and stabilization
21. Sexual imprinting in female zebra finches: Changes in preferences as an effect of adult experience
22. Hormonal correlates of behavioral development in male zebra finches
23. Haben steroidhormone einen einfluß auf die sexuelle prägung? Untersuchungen zu physiologischen korrelaten eines frühontogenetischen lernvorgangs bei männlichen zebrafinken (Taeniopygia guttata)
24. The effects of early visual experience on the cat's visual cortex and their possible explanation by Hebb synapses
25. Mechanismen neuronaler plastizität als folge von prägungsvorgängen
26. Rearing conditions affect neuron morphology in a telencephalic area of the zebra finch
27. Phase specific morphological changes induced by social experience in two forebrain areas of the zebra finch
28. Spine density changes in forebrain areas of the zebra finch by TEA-induced potentiation
29. Evidence for the involvement of two areas of the zebra finch forebrain in sexual imprinting
30. Does synaptic selection explain auditory imprinting?
31. Besonderheiten in der sexuellen entwicklung des zebrafinken (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis GOULD)
32. Auditory imprinting leads to differential 2-deoxyglucose uptake and dendritic spine loss in the chick rostral forebrain