Vocal learning in seals, sea lions, and walruses

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2014, Pages 66-71

  Reichmuth, Colleen ^a   Casey, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; LEARNING; OTARIIDAE; PHOCIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PINNIPEDIA; VOCALIZATION; WALRUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; IMITATION; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; REVIEW; SEAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; PINNIPEDIA; SEA LIONS; SEALS, EARLESS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WALRUSES;

EID: 84904498071     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.06.011     Document Type: Review

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