Auditory-dependent vocal recovery in adult male zebra finches is facilitated by lesion of a forebrain pathway that includes the basal ganglia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 12308-12320

  Thompson, John A ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Bertram, Richard ^a   Johnson, Frank ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Auditory feedback; Deafening; Sensorimotor; Songbird; Vocal plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCAL RECOVERY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BASAL GANGLIA; FINCHES; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 36049035535     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2853-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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