Song and the limbic brain: A new function for the bird's own song

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 611-627

  Cheng, Mei Fang ^a   Durand, Sarah E ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Limbic brain; Self stimulation; Song; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOVE; EMOTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; FOWL; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARROT; SELF STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 3242727537     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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