Imaging auditory representations of song and syllables in populations of sensorimotor neurons essential to vocal communication

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5589-5605

  Peh, Wendy Y X ^a   Roberts, Todd F ^a,b   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory encoding; Calcium imaging; Functional organization; Sensorimotor area; Songbird; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CALCIUM IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; ORAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINCH; IN VITRO STUDY; INJURIES; METABOLISM; MUSIC; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTOR; VOCALIZATION;

ALEXA594; CALCIUM; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINCHES; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; NEURONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TELENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84929359515     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2308-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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