Functional changes between seasons in the male songbird auditory forebrain

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  De Groof, Geert ^a   Poirier, Colline ^a   George, Isabelle ^b   Hausberger, Martine ^b   Van Der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Caudomedial nidopallium; European starling; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Lateralization; NCM; Seasonal plasticity; Songbird

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDOMEDIAL NIDOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; MATE CHOICE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84891046962     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00196     Document Type: Article

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