Auditory plasticity in a basal ganglia-forebrain pathway during decrystallization of adult birdsong

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6374-6387

  Roy, Arani ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory feedback; Auditory selectivity; Basal ganglia; LMAN; Songbird; Vocal nerve; Vocal plasticity; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASAL GANGLIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEEDBACK; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250338170     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0894-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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