Gating of auditory responses in the vocal control system of awake songbirds

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 513-518

  Schmidt, Marc F ^a   Konishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; HEARING; MALE; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33644688424     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2232     Document Type: Article

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