Localized brain activation related to the strength of auditory learning in a parrot

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Eda Fujiwara, Hiroko ^a,b   Imagawa, Takuya ^c   Matsushita, Masanori ^c   Matsuda, Yasushi ^c   Takeuchi, Hiro Aki ^c   Satoh, Ryohei ^d   Watanabe, Aiko ^a   Zandbergen, Matthijs A ^e   Manabe, Kazuchika ^f   Kawashima, Takashi ^f   Bolhuis, Johan J ^e  

^a JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZENK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; JAPANESE; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; NONHUMAN; PARAKEET; PARROT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZENK GENE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARROTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84862179788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038803     Document Type: Article

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