Memory-dependent adjustment of vocal response latencies in a territorial songbird

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-209

  Geberzahn, Nicole ^a   Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birdsong learning; Birdsong memory; Interactive playback; Luscinia megarhynchos; Memory retrieval; Song alternating; Song matching; Song overlapping; Vocal interactions; Vocal response latencies

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RECALL; SONGBIRD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84878542746     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: 17697115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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