Producing song: The vocal apparatus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 109-129

  Suthers, Roderick A ^a   Zollinger, Sue Anne ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Motor control; Sound production; Syrins; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOVE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARROT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SINGING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STEREOTYPY; VOCAL CORD;

AVES; COLUMBIFORMES; LABIA; PASSERI; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 3242665127     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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