Bottom-up activation of the vocal motor forebrain by the respiratory brainstem

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2613-2623

  Ashmore, Robin C ^a,b   Renk, Jessica A ^a   Schmidt, Marc F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Brainstem; Corollary; Respiration; Song; Vocal

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREBRAIN; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; THALAMUS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; FINCHES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; RESPIRATORY CENTER; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 40449138236     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4547-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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