Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain: A motor theory for vocal learning origin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Feenders, Gesa ^a,c   Liedvogel, Miriam ^a,d   Rivas, Miriam ^b   Zapka, Manuela ^a   Horita, Haruhito ^b   Hara, Erina ^b   Wada, Kazuhiro ^b,e   Mouritsen, Henrik ^a   Jarvis, Erich D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOVE; FEMALE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARROT; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SPEECH; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIRD; LEARNING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVES; COLUMBIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; TROCHILIDAE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 46349089821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001768     Document Type: Article

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