Hemispheric differences in processing of vocalizations depend on early experience

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

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2301-2306

  Phan, Mimi L ^a   Vicario, David S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Development; Electrophysiology; Lateralization; Songbird

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FINCHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LEARNING; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 76649143107     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900091107     Document Type: Article

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