Auditory experience refines cortico-basal ganglia inputs to motor cortex via remapping of single axons during vocal learning in zebra finches

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1142-1156

  Miller Sims, Vanessa C ^a   Bottjer, Sarah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon remodeling; Experience dependent remodeling; Songbirds; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; FINCH; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VARICOSIS; VOCALIZATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AXONS; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84856784016     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00614.2011     Document Type: Article

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