Linked control of syllable sequence and phonology in birdsong

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 12936-12949

  Wohlgemuth, Melville J ^a   Sober, Samuel J ^a,b   Brainard, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONCHURA DOMESTICA; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TELENCEPHALON; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHONETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TELENCEPHALON; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77957352264     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2690-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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