Seasonal changes in avian song nuclei without seasonal changes in song repertoire
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Seasonal changes in testosterone, neural attributes of song control nuclei, and song structure in wild songbirds.
Seasonal changes in the neural attributes of brain nuclei that control song in songbirds are among the most pronounced examples of naturally occurring plasticity in the adult brain of any vertebrate. The behavioral correlates of this seasonal neural plasticity have not been well characterized, particularly in songbird species that lack adult song learning. To address this question, we investiga...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.11-05-01367.1991