Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 749-777

  Jarvis, Erich D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory pathway; Broca's area; Dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex; Epigenetic constraints; Song; Speech; Warble; Wernicke's area

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BAT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPEECH; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STAINING; THALAMUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PSITTACIDAE; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242716663     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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