Vocal exploration is locally regulated during song learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3422-3432

  Ravbar, Primoz ^a   Lipkind, Dina ^c   Parra, Lucas C ^b   Tchernichovski, Ofer ^c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FINCH; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONG LEARNING; TRAINING; VOCAL CORD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84857833477     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3740-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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