High levels of new neuron addition persist when the sensitive period for song learning is experimentally prolonged

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 36, 2006, Pages 9135-9141

  Wilbrecht, Linda ^a,d   Williams, Heather ^b   Gangadhar, Nidhi ^a,c   Nottebohm, Fernando ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; BrdU; Deprivation; Learning and memory; Neuroethology; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HATCHING; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33748486951     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4869-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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