Blocking estradiol synthesis affects memory for songs in auditory forebrain of male zebra finches

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 922-926

  Yoder, Kathleen M ^a   Lu, Kai ^a   Vicario, David S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal vocalization; auditory processing; caudomedial nidopallium; Estradiol; memory songbirds; species specificity; stimulus specific adaptation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FADROZOLE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TAENIOPYGIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FINCHES; MALE; MEMORY; PROSENCEPHALON; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SINGING; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84867202476     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283588b61     Document Type: Article

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