Axial organization of a brain region that sequences a learned pattern of behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 9312-9322

  Stauffer, Tiffanie R ^a   Elliott, Kevin C ^a   Ross, Matthew T ^a   Basista, Mark J ^a   Hyson, Richard L ^a   Johnson, Frank ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCH; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DENERVATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; LEARNING; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84863454035     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0978-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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