Own-song recognition in the songbird auditory pathway: Selectivity and lateralization

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2252-2258

  Poirier, Colline ^a   Boumans, Tiny ^a   Verhoye, Marleen ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^b   Van Linden, Annemie Der ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auditory; Birdsong; Cognition; Functional MRI; Lateralization; Midbrain

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SKILL; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VERTEBRATE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FINCHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 60849108339     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4650-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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