Song selectivity in the song system and in the auditory forebrain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 222-245

  Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a,b   Amin, Noopur ^a   Shaevitz, Sarita S ^a   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Fremouw, Thane ^a   Hauber, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 3210 Tolman Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Natural sounds; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOUND; TONOTOPY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 3242682381     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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