Avian Models for Human Cognitive Neuroscience: A Proposal

Neuron

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1330-1342

  Clayton, Nicola S ^a   Emery, Nathan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ATTENTION; BIRD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORVID; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; REVIEW; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 84931033640     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.04.024     Document Type: Review

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