Sexually stimulating signals of canary (Serinus canaria) songs: evidence for a female-specific auditory representation in the HVc nucleus during the breeding season.

During the breeding season under long-day conditions, male canaries sing sexually attractive songs and females respond behaviorally to such songs. This study assessed whether auditory response properties of neurons in nucleus HVc of female and male canaries are tuned to sexually salient song featur...

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Publicado en:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 526 - 543
Autores principales:	Del Negro, Catherine, Kreutzer, Michel, Gahr, Manfred
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Psychological Association June 2000
Materias:	Birds as laboratory animals Birdsongs Animal sexual behavior Brain function localization Auditory perception Birds
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