Effects of Early Song Experience on Song Preferences and Song Control and Auditory Brain Regions in Female House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus)

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-258

  Hernandez, Alexandra M ^a,b   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birdsong; cmHV; NCM; Song learning; Songbirds; Zenk

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZENK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REARING; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; LEARNING; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1942517380     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10312     Document Type: Article

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