Social modulation of sequence and syllable variability in adult birdsong

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1700-1711

  Sakata, Jon T ^a   Hampton, Cara M ^a   Brainard, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; NERVE NET; PERIODICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 42249088612     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01296.2007     Document Type: Article

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