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J Neurophysiol (2011)
 

17) April/8/2011 by Ikuta

L. Fusani and M. Gahr

"HORMONAL INFLUENCE ON SONG STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION: THE ROLE OF ESTROGEN"
 Neuroscience 138 (2006)

16) March/31/2011 by Ohgushi

Eckel-Mahan KL, Phan T, Han S, Wang H, Chan GC, Scheiner ZS, Storm DR.

“Circadian oscillation of hippocampal MAPK activity and cAmp: implications for memory persistence.”
Nat Neurosci. (2008) 11:1074-82.

15) March/25/2011 by Kobayashi

Jonathan D Charlesworth, Evren C Tumer,Timothy L Warren, & Michael S Brainard　

“Learning the microstructure of successful behavior”
Nature Neuroscience (2011) Vol14, Pages:373

14) March/18/2011 by Imai

Wohlgemuth, M. J., Sober, S. J., & Brainard, M. S.

"Linked Control of Syllable Sequence and Phonology in Birdsong"
The Journal of neuroscience (2010) 30(39), 12936-12949.

13) March/10/2011 by Someya

Changsoo Kang et al.
"Mutations in the Lysosomal Enzyme-Targeting Pathway and Persistent Stuttering"
N Engle J Med. (2010) 362(8): 677–685

12) February/25/2011 by Mori

Constance Scharff, et al.
"Targeted Neuronal Death Affects Neuronal Replacement and Vocal Behavior in Adult Songbirds"

Neuron (2000) 25, 481–492

11) February/18/2011 by Ikuta

London SE, Clayton DF.
"Functional identification of sensory mechanisms required for developmental song learning"
Nat Neurosci. (2008) 11:579-86.

10) February/4/2011 by Imai

Caroline A. A van Heijningen, Jos de Visser, Willem Zuidema, Carel Ten Cate
"Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species"
PNAS (2009) 106, 20538–20543

9) Janurary/27/2011 by Mori

Thompson et al.

"Dual pre-motor contribution to songbird syllable variation"
Journal of neuroscience (2011) 31(1):322–330

8) Janurary/20/2011 by Kobayashi

Osceola Whitney,Frank Johnson

7) December/17/2010 by Ishibashi

6) December/2/2010 by Ikuta

5) November/4/2011 by Ohgushi

Author:Olga, F et al.
"De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch"
Nature (2009) 459, 564-568

4) Octorber/28/2010 by Imai

Takahasi, M; Okanoya, K
"Song Learning in Wild and Domesticated Strains of White-Rumped Munia, Lonchura striata, Compared by Cross-Fostering Procedures: Domestication Increases Song Variability by Decreasing Strain-Specific Bias"
ETHOLOGY (2010)116 (5): 396-405

3) Octorber/21/2010 by Kobayashi (& Wada)

Whitney O, Soderstrom K, Johnson F.

"Post-transcriptional regulation of zenk expression associated with zebra finch vocal development"

Molecular Brain Research  (2000) 80, 279–290

2) Octorber/14/2010 by Mori

K.W.Nordeen and E.J.Nordeen

"Deafeneing-Induced Vocal Deterioration in Adult Songbirds Is Reversed by Disrupting a Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuit"

J. Neuroscience (2010)

1) Octorber/7/2010 by Horita

Jonathan F Prather, Stephen Nowicki, Rindy C Anderson, Susan
Peters & Richard Mooney
"Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication"

Nature Neuroscience (2009) 12, 221-228