Auditory representations and memory in birdsong learning

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-339

  Hahnloser, Richard HR ^a   Kotowicz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77954759468     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.02.011     Document Type: Review

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