Human-like brain hemispheric dominance in birdsong learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12782-12787

  Moorman, Sanne ^a   Gobes, Sharon M H ^a,b,c   Kuijpers, Maaike ^a   Kerkhofs, Amber ^a   Zandbergen, Matthijs A ^a   Bolhuis, Johan J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric specialization; Language evolution; Left brain activation; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; WERNICKE AREA; ZENK GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FINCHES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

PASSERI; PRIMATES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84864500142     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207207109     Document Type: Article

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