Premotor synaptic plasticity limited to the critical period for song learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 42, 2011, Pages 17492-17497

  Sizemore, Max ^a   Perkel, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Finch; Song crystallization; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; TESTOSTERONE;

ARCOPALLIUM; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN SLICE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSIC; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FINCHES; LEARNING; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054800349     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104255108     Document Type: Article

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