Foxp2 mutations impair auditory-motor association learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kurt, Simone ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^b,c,d   Ehret, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MOTOR FUNCTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA BINDING; FOXP2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING; MARKER GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS;

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR SKILLS; MUTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84857853508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033130     Document Type: Article

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