Singing mice, songbirds, and more: Models for FOXP2 function and dysfunction in human speech and language

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 41, 2006, Pages 10376-10379

  White, Stephanie A ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^b   Scharff, Constance ^d   Holy, Timothy E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Birdsong; Brain development; Chromatin immunoprecipitation; Forkhead; FOXP2; Language; Motor learning; Song; Speech; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MICE; SONGBIRDS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33749836933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3379-06.2006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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