Song selectivity in the pallial-basal ganglia song circuit of zebra finches raised without tutor song exposure

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2099-2109

  Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIRD; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35348884846     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00916.2006     Document Type: Article

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