Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 927-931

  Sober, Samuel J ^a   Brainard, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; HEARING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND DETECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK; FINCHES; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 67649822157     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2336     Document Type: Article

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