Population coding of song element sequence in the Bengalese finch HVC

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3273-3283

  Nishikawa, Jun ^a   Okada, Masato ^a,b   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confounded information; Distributed representation; Songbirds; Temporal combination selective neuron

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CALCULATION; CELL POPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; FINCH; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; INFORMATION; MALE; MODEL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 45349093687     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06291.x     Document Type: Article

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