Limits on reacquisition of song in adult zebra finches exposed to white noise

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5849-5862

  Zevin, Jason D ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b   Bottjer, Sarah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory learning; Behavioral plasticity; Sensitive period; Song learning; Songbirds; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY TRAINING; BEHAVIORAL PLASTICITY; BENGALESE FINCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LOUDNESS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONG LEARNING; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION; WHITE NOISE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONVALESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOISE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 3042753387     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1891-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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