Vocal experimentation in the juvenile songbird requires a basal ganglia circuit

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 0902-0909

  Ölveczky, Bence P ^a,b   Andalman, Aaron S ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; EXPERIMENTATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MAMMAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FINCH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

MAMMALIA; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

TETRODOTOXIN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; FINCHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TETRODOTOXIN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 21844471233     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030153     Document Type: Article

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