Current state-of-the-art of auditory functional MRI (fMRI) on zebra finches: Technique and scientific achievements

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 156-169

  Van Ruijssevelt, Lisbeth ^a   Van der Kant, Anne ^a   De Groof, Geert ^a   Van der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auditory fMRI; BOLD; FMRI; Functional MRI; Songbirds; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NUCLEUS MESENCEPHALICUS LATERALIS PARS DORSALIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARLING; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84878525147     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: 17697115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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