Coevolution in communication senders and receivers: Vocal behavior and auditory processing in multiple songbird species

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-165

  Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Moore, Jordan M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrildid finches; Experience; Learning; Perception; Sensory coding; Song

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; ESTRILDIDAE; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERI;

EID: 79955549154     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05989.x     Document Type: Article

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