Dual pre-motor contribution to songbird syllable variation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 322-330

  Thompson, John A ^a   Basista, Mark J ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Bertram, Richard ^a   Johnson, Frank ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY NERVE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78650910626     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5967-09.2011     Document Type: Article

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