Linking social and vocal brains: Could social segregation prevent a proper development of a central auditory area in a female songbird?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Cousillas, Hugo ^a   George, Isabelle ^a   Henry, Laurence ^a   Richard, Jean Pierre ^a   Hausberger, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SONGBIRD; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PASSERI; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 48249139465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002194     Document Type: Article

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