Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-159

  Jarvis, Erich ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a   Bruce, Laura ^a   Csillag, András ^a   Karten, Harvey ^a   Kuenzel, Wayne ^a   Medina, Loreta ^a   Paxinos, George ^a   Perkel, David J ^a   Shimizu, Toru ^a   Striedter, Georg ^a   Martin Wild, J ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^a   Dugas Ford, Jennifer ^a   Durand, Sarah E ^a   Hough, Gerald E ^a   Husband, Scott ^a   Kubikova, Lubica ^a   Lee, Diane W ^a   Mello, Claudio V ^a   Powers, Alice ^a   Siang, Connie ^a   Smulders, Tom V ^a   Wada, Kazuhiro ^a   White, Stephanie A ^a   Yamamoto, Keiko ^a   Yu, Jing ^a   Reiner, Anton ^a   Butler, Ann B ^a   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FOWL; NEOCORTEX; NEUROSCIENCE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; VERTEBRATES;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 13244283082     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1606     Document Type: Review

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