Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of 'crystallized' adult birdsong

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7173, 2007, Pages 1240-1244

  Tumer, Evren C ^a   Brainard, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIRD; LEARNING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SONG; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FINCH; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA;

EID: 37549058045     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06390     Document Type: Article

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