Vocal experimentation in the juvenile songbird requires a basal ganglia circuit.
Songbirds learn their songs by trial-and-error experimentation, producing highly variable vocal output as juveniles. By comparing their own sounds to the song of a tutor, young songbirds gradually converge to a stable song that can be a remarkably good copy of the tutor song. Here we show that vocal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1069649?pdf=render |