Toward a neurobiology of auditory object perception: What can we learn from the songbird forebrain?

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 671-683

  Lu, Kai ^a   Vicario, David S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Neural selectivity; Object perception; Plasticity; Songbird; Stimulus specific adaptation

Indexed keywords

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EID: 80055109885     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.6.671     Document Type: Article

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