Hormonal acceleration of song development illuminates motor control mechanism in canaries

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 943-960

  Alliende, Jorge A ^a   Méndez, Jorge M ^a,b   Goller, Franz ^b   Mindlin, Gabriel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Motor gestures; Serinus canaria; Subharmonics; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ACCELERATION; AIR SAC; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; MALE; MODULATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SERINUS CANARIA; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

AIR SACS; ANIMALS; CANARIES; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78349239661     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20835     Document Type: Article

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