Task-related "cortical" bursting depends critically on basal ganglia input and is linked to vocal plasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4756-4761

  Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Kao, Mimi H ^a   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior forebrain pathway; Auditory feedback; Parkinson disease; Prefrontal cortex; Skill learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PALLIDOTOMY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FINCHES; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84875259664     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216308110     Document Type: Article

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