A cortical motor nucleus drives the basal ganglia-recipient thalamus in singing birds

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 620-627

  Goldberg, Jesse H ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; FINCH; LEARNING; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; FINCHES; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SONGBIRDS; THALAMUS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84859209631     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3047     Document Type: Article

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