Motor circuits help encode auditory memories of vocal models used to guide vocal learning

Hearing Research

Volumn 303, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-57

  Roberts, Todd F ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEARING; LEARNING; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SONGBIRD; TELENCEPHALON; VOCAL LEARNING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84880646583     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2013.01.009     Document Type: Review

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