Auditory feedback is necessary for long-term maintenance of high-frequency sound syllables in the song of adult male budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-97

  Watanabe, Aiko ^a,b   Eda Fujiwara, Hiroko ^a   Kimura, Takeji ^a  

^a JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult song maintenance; Auditory feedback; Budgerigar; Songbird; Vocal plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; LEARNING; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAKEET; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEARING; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33846099518     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0173-y     Document Type: Article

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