Vocalization frequency and duration are coded in separate hindbrain nuclei

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chagnaud, Boris P ^a,c   Baker, Robert ^b,c   Bass, Andrew H ^a,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PATTERN GENERATOR; RHOMBENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

VERTEBRATA;

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMALS; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; CALIFORNIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79959281910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1349     Document Type: Article

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