Top-down regulation of plasticity in the birdsong system: "Premotor" activity in the nucleus HVC predicts song variability better than it predicts song features

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2956-2965

  Day, Nancy F ^a   Kinnischtzke, Amanda K ^a,b   Adam, Murtaza ^a,c   Nick, Teresa A ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Center for Neuroscience   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENTROPY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FINCH; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS HVC; PERIODICITY; PITCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 57049143162     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90501.2008     Document Type: Article

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