Roles of the auditory midbrain and thalamus in selective phonotaxis in female gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 63-77

  Endepols, Heike ^a   Feng, Albert S ^b   Gerhardt, H Carl ^c   Schul, Johannes ^c   Walkowiak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anuran; Auditory pathway; Female phonotaxis; Lesions; Motivation; Thalamus; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; HEARING; MATE CHOICE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0141869033     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00098-6     Document Type: Article

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