Neural mechanisms of vocal sequence: Generation in the songbird

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 153-170

  Fee, Michale S ^a   Kozhevnikov, Alexay A ^a   Hahnloser, Richard H R ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HVC neurons; Premotor nucleus RA; Temporal order; Vocal sequence generation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SOUND; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 3242688751     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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