A role for descending auditory cortical projections in songbird vocal learning

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Mandelblat Cerf, Yael ^a   Las, Liora ^a   Denissenko, Natalia ^a   Fee, Michale ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL TRACT TRACER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARCOPALLIUM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; IMITATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; STEREOTYPY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VOICE;

EID: 84905181308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/elife.02152     Document Type: Article

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