Birdsong memory and the brain: In search of the template

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-55

  Bolhuis, Johan J ^a,b   Moorman, Sanne ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Birdsong learning; CMM; Engram; Filial imprinting; HVC; Language; Learning; NCM; Songbirds; Speech

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDOMEDIAL PALLIUM; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SLEEP PATTERN; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VOCALIZATION; WERNICKE AREA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; FINCH; HEARING; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; SONGBIRD; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FINCHES; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; SLEEP; SONGBIRDS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84924044007     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.11.019     Document Type: Review

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