Language and birdsong: Introduction to the special issue

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Perkel, David J ^a   Osterhout, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Birdsong; FoxP2; Homology

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77957909321     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.12.002     Document Type: Editorial

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