Elemental gesture dynamics are encoded by song premotor cortical neurons

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7439, 2013, Pages 59-64

  Amador, Ana ^a,b   Perl, Yonatan Sanz ^b   Mindlin, Gabriel B ^b   Margoliash, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGING; SLEEP; SONGBIRD; TIME; TRACHEA; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BIRD; BRAIN CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GESTURE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PHONATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRESSURE AND TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; SINGING; SLEEP; SONGBIRDS; TIME; TRACHEA; WAKEFULNESS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

AUDITORY CUE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SONG; TENSION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84874701639     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11967     Document Type: Article

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