Recurrent interactions between the input and output of a songbird cortico-basal ganglia pathway are implicated in vocal sequence variability

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 11671-11687

  Hamaguchi, Kosuke ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINCH; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; VOCALIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA AGONISTS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; IBOTENIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SONGBIRDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84865210287     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1666-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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