Synaptic transformations underlying highly selective auditory representations of learned birdsong

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 7251-7265

  Coleman, Melissa J ^a   Mooney, R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Communication; In vivo intracellular; Neuronal interaction; Songbird; Temporal sparseness; Tuning; Vocal learning; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SONGBIRDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 7244224872     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0947-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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