Birdsong and Vocal Learning during Development

Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 164-168

  Beecher, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Action based learning; Canalization; Imprinting; Isolation experiment; Marler; Neurogenesis; Peter; Sensitive period; Sensorimotor phase; Social eavesdropping; Song learning; Songbirds; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251543794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045396-5.00128-7     Document Type: Chapter

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