The development of stimulus-specific auditory responses requires song exposure in male but not female zebra finches

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-40

  Maul, Kristen K ^a   Voss, Henning U ^b   Parra, Lucas C ^c   Salgado Commissariat, Delanthi ^d   Ballon, Douglas ^b   Tchernichovski, Ofer ^a   Helekar, Santosh A ^e  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory forebrain; Auditory responses; Sensitive period; Sensory; Song learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FINCHES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 73849121023     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20751     Document Type: Article

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