Evidence for "direct" and "indirect" pathways through the song system basal ganglia

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 484, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-104

  Farries, Michael A ^a   Ding, Long ^b   Perkel, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal vocalization; Corpus striatum; Learning; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN AREA X; BRAIN REGION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TERMINOLOGY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 14744267690     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20464     Document Type: Article

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