Automatic reconstruction of physiological gestures used in a model of birdsong production

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2912-2922

  Boari, Santiago ^a   Perl, Yonatan Sanz ^a   Amador, Ana ^a   Margoliash, Daniel ^b   Mindlin, Gabriel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird s own song; Dynamical systems; Modeling software; Peripheral vocal production model; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; BREATHING MUSCLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GESTURE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TELENCEPHALON; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINCH; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TRACHEA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRACHEA; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84947460213     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00385.2015     Document Type: Article

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