A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations

Neuron

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 680-693

  Hamaguchi, Kosuke ^a,b   Tanaka, Masashi ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLD; FINCH; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; COLD TEMPERATURE; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSENCEPHALON; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84991107476     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.019     Document Type: Article

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