The avian auditory pallium

The Auditory Cortex

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 429-442

  Elliott, Taffeta M ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0074-6_20     Document Type: Chapter

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