Singing-related activity of identified HVC neurons in the zebra finch

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4271-4283

  Kozhevnikov, Alexay A ^a,b   Fee, Michale S ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTYPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34447514382     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00952.2006     Document Type: Article

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