A bird's eye view of neural circuit formation

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-131

  Ölveczky, Bence P ^a   Gardner, Timothy J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BASAL GANGLION; CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79952068111     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.08.001     Document Type: Review

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