Mapping neural architectures onto acoustic features of birdsong

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 96-110

  Abarbanel, Henry D I ^a,b   Gibb, Leif ^a   Mindlin, Gabriel B ^a,c   Talathi, Sachin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARCHISTRIATUM; ARTICLE; BIRDSONG; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER MODEL; CORPUS STRIATUM; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEURAL ARCHITECTURE; NUCLEUS HVC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBUST NUCLEUS; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SYNAPSE; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE NET; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 3042590480     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01146.2003     Document Type: Article

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