A basal ganglia-forebrain circuit in the songbird biases motor output to avoid vocal errors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12518-12523

  Andalman, Aaron S ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior forebrain pathway; Consolidation; LMAN; Motor learning; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR FOREBRAIN PATHWAY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PITCH; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BASAL GANGLIA; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

MAMMALIA; PASSERI;

EID: 68149156476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903214106     Document Type: Article

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