Sleep-related neural activity in a premotor and a basal-ganglia pathway of the songbird

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 794-812

  Hahnloser, Richard H R ^a,b,d   Kozhevnikov, Alexay A ^b,c   Fee, Michale S ^b,c  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SLEEP; SONGBIRD; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SLEEP; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 33746616459     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01064.2005     Document Type: Article

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