Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit

Bence P Ölveczky; Aaron S Andalman; Michale S Fee

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030153

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Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit

Bence P Ölveczky,

Affiliations McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Aaron S Andalman,

Affiliation McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Michale S Fee

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fee@mit.edu

Affiliation McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit

Bence P Ölveczky,
Aaron S Andalman,
Michale S Fee

Published: March 29, 2005
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030153

About the Authors

Bence P Ölveczky

Affiliations McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aaron S Andalman

Affiliation McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michale S Fee

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fee@mit.edu

Affiliation McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BPÖ, ASA, and MSF conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.

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