Neural mechanisms of birdsong memory

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 347-357

  Bolhuis, Johan J ^a   Gahr, Manfred ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; PROTEIN ZENK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MEMORY; MUSIC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SONGBIRD; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SONGBIRDS; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES;

EID: 33745726847     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1904     Document Type: Review

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