Growth and splitting of neural sequences in songbird vocal development

Nature

Volumn 528, Issue 7582, 2015, Pages 352-357

  Okubo, Tatsuo S ^a   Mackevicius, Emily L ^a   Payne, Hannah L ^b   Lynch, Galen F ^a   Fee, Michale S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEURAL PROTOSEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROJECTION NEURON; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SPEECH; SPIKE; SYLLABLE; VIDEORECORDING; VOCAL DEVELOPMENT; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; FINCH; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; PASSERI;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84950988678     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15741     Document Type: Article

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