Neural correlates of singing behavior in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

✍ Scribed by MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. ;Hulse, Stewart H. ;Ball, Gregory F.

• Book ID: 101259248
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 200 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-3034
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(19980905)36:3<421::aid-neu9>3.0.co;2-y

✦ Synopsis

This study examined the relation-lMAN was negatively related to element repertoire ship between the volumes of four song control nuclei: size and the number of elements per phrase. We found the high vocal center (HVC), the lateral part of the magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum no other correlations between brain and behavioral (lMAN), Area X, and the robust nucleus of the archimeasures. This study, combined with others, indicates striatum (RA), as well as syrinx mass, with several that the evidence for a general relationship among measures of song output and song complexity in male songbirds between HVC volume and song complexity zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Male zebra is equivocal. There are clear species differences in this finches' songs were recorded in standardized rebrain-behavior correlation. ᭧ 1998 John Wiley & Sons, cording sessions. The syrinx and brain were subse-