Spatiotemporal properties of visual stimuli for song induction in Bengalese finches

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1339-1343

  Takahasi, Miki ^a,b   Ikebuchi, Maki ^b,c,d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b,e  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bengalese finch; Birdsong; Visual processing pathways; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SINGING; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FINCHES; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 24044548374     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000175251.10288.5f     Document Type: Article

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