Bigger brains or bigger nuclei? Regulating the size of auditory structures in birds

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-180

  Kubke, M Fabiana ^a,b   Massoglia, Dino P ^a   Carr, Catherine E ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allometry; Auditory; Birds; Evolution; Neuronal computation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HYPERPLASIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIRDS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 1542283675     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076242     Document Type: Article

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