Age and experience affect the recruitment of new neurons to the song system of zebra finches during the sensitive period for song learning: Ditto for vocal learning in humans?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2004, Pages 404-409

  Wilbrecht, Linda ^a   Nottebohm, Fernando ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rockefeller Field Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Forebrain networks; Songbirds; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BASAL GANGLION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIENCE; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; LEARNING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SKILL; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; FRINGILLIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 3042713351     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1308.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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