Birdsong: Is it music to their ears?

Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Earp, Sarah E ^a   Maney, Donna L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egr 1; Mesolimbic reward system; Music; Reward; Song; Songbird

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874196516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1663070X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00014     Document Type: Article

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