The song must go on: Resilience of the songbird vocal motor pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Poole, Barish ^a   Markowitz, Jeffrey E ^b,c   Gardner, Timothy J ^a,c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center of Excellence for Learning in Education Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL MOTOR NUCLEUS HVC; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; SONGBIRD; STEREOTYPY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FINCHES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84863097108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038173     Document Type: Article

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