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Title:

Neuroscience of birdsong / edited by H. Philip Zeigler, Peter Marler.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 550 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Birdsongs.
Neurosciences.
Birds--Behavior.
Birds--Vocalization.
Brain--Physiology.
Learning in animals.

Other Authors:

Zeigler, H. Philip (Harris Philip), 1931-
Marler, Peter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-530) and indexes.

Contents:

Birdsong and human speech : common themes and mechanisms / Allison J. Doupe and Patricia K. Kuhl -- Birdsong and singing behavior / Heather Williams -- The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) : an alternative model for the study of songbird neurobiology / Gisela Kaplan -- Songbirds and the revised avian brain nomenclature / Anton Reiner ... [et al.] -- The songbird brain in comparative perspective / Michael A. Farries and David. J. Perkel -- From brain to song : the vocal organ and vocal tract / Roderick A. Suthers and Sue Ann Zollinger -- Peripheral mechanisms of sensorimotor integration during singing / Franz Goller and Brenton G. Cooper -- Integrating breathing and singing : forebrain and brainstem mechanisms / Marc F. Schmidt and Robin Ashmore -- Birdsong : anatomical foundations and central mechanisms of sensorimotor integration / J. Martin Wild -- Song selectivity and the songbird brain / Frédéric E. Theunissen ... [et al.] -- Song-selective neurons in the songbird brain : synaptic mechanisms and functional roles / Jonathan F. Prather and Richard Mooney -- Temporal auditory pattern recognition in songbirds / Timothy Q. Gentner -- Comparative aspects of song learning / Henrike Hultsch and Dietmar Todt -- Developmental song learning in the zebra finch / Sigal Saar ... [et al.] -- Auditory feedback and singing in adult birds / Sarah M.N. Woolley -- The anterior forebrain pathway and vocal plasticity / Michael S. Brainard -- Circuits and cellular mechanisms of sensory acquisition / Ernest J. Nordeen and Kathy W. Nordeen -- Chasin' the trace : the neural substrate of birdsong memory / Johan J. Bolhuis -- The template concept : crafting a song replica from memory / Patrice Adret -- Hormonal modulation of singing behavior : methodology and principles of hormone action / Cheryl F. Harding -- Sex differences in brain and behavior and the neuroendocrine control of the motivation to sing / Gregory F. Ball ... [et al.] -- Plasticity of the song control system in adult birds / Eliot A. Brenowitz -- Regulation and function of neuronal replacement in the avian song system / Carolyn Pytte, Linda Wilbrecht and John R. Kirn -- Studies of songbirds in the age of genetics : what to expect from genomic approaches in the next 20 years / David F. Clayton and Arthur P. Arnold -- Behavior-dependent expression of inducible genes in vocal learning birds / Claudio V. Mello and Erich D. Jarvis -- Genes for tuning up the vocal brain : FoxP2 in human speech and birdsong / Sebastian Haesler and Constance Scharff -- William Homans Thorpe : a biographical memoir / R.A. Hinde -- My journey with birdsong / Masakazu Konishi -- The discovery of replaceable neurons / Fernando Nottebohm -- Birdsong and monkey talk : an ethological journey / Peter Marler.

ISBN:

0521869153
9780521869157

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)