Immediate and long-term effects of testosterone on song plasticity and learning in juvenile song sparrows

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 254-260

  Templeton, Christopher N ^a   Burt, John M ^a   Campbell, S Elizabeth ^a   Lent, Karin ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird song; Hormones; Learning; Sensory learning; Song crystallization; Song learning; Song sparrow; Songbird; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; JUVENILE; LEARNING; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEX HORMONE; SONG; SONGBIRD; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; LEARNING; MALE; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; NONHUMAN; SINGING; SPARROW; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; MALE; MEMORY; SPARROWS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERI;

EID: 84860522320     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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