Response properties of the auditory telencephalon in songbirds change with recent experience and season

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Terleph, Thomas A ^a   Lu, Kai ^b   Vicario, David S ^b  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BREEDING; CANARY; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELENCEPHALON; TREND STUDY; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEASON; SONGBIRD;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CANARIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 51349110513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002854     Document Type: Article

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