Neural representation of a target auditory memory in a cortico-basal ganglia pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14475-14488

  Achiro, Jennifer McGrady ^a   Bottjer, Sarah W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPIKE WAVE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FINCHES; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONS; SINGING;

EID: 84883438892     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0710-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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