Learning-related neuronal activation in the zebra finch song system nucleus HVC in response to the bird's own song

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bolhuis, Johan J ^a   Gobes, Sharon M H ^a,b   Terpstra, Nienke J ^a,c   den Boer Visser, Ardie M ^c   Zandbergen, Matthijs A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA X; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FINCH; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; ROBUST NUCLEUS OF ARCOPALLIUM; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION; ZENK GENE;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BRAIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84864659012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041556     Document Type: Article

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