A higher sensory brain region is involved in reversing reinforcement-induced vocal changes in a songbird

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7018-7026

  Canopoli, Alessandro ^a,b   Herbst, Joshua A ^a,b   Hahnloser, Richard H R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Neuroscience Center Zurich and Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84900406012     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0266-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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