Peripheral motor dynamics of song production in the zebra finch

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 130-152

  Goller, Franz ^a   Cooper, Brenton G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beak; Motor coordination; Respiration; Syringeal dynamics; Tracheal resonance

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; AIRFLOW; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BREATHING MUSCLE; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SOUND; TRACHEA; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALIA; LABIA; PASSERI; POEPHILA; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 3242708507     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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