Functional MRI of auditory responses in the zebra finch forebrain reveals a hierarchical organisation based on signal strength but not selectivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Boumans, Tiny ^a   Gobes, Sharon M H ^b   Poirier, Colline ^a   Theunissen, Frederic E ^c   Vandersmissen, Liesbeth ^a   Pintjens, Wouter ^a   Verhoye, Marleen ^a   Bolhuis, Johan J ^b   van der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; THALAMUS; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; TELENCEPHALON; TIME;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FINCHES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SOUND; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 52649129832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003184     Document Type: Article

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