Two distinct modes of forebrain circuit dynamics underlie temporal patterning in the vocalizations of young songbirds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 16353-16368

  Aronov, Dmitriy ^a   Veit, Lena ^a   Goldberg, Jesse H ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONOLOGY; COOLING; FOREBRAIN; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; LATERAL MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS OF THE NIDOPALLIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; STEREOTYPY; TIMING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROSENCEPHALON; RESPIRATION; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80755143564     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3009-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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