Song recognition learning and stimulus-specific weakening of neural responses in the avian auditory forebrain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1785-1797

  Thompson, Jason V ^a   Gentner, Timothy Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FOWL; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PROSENCEPHALON; STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77951214736     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00885.2009     Document Type: Article

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