title: Bird song: of tone and tempo in the telencephalon.
abstract: Songbirds learn a new song by matching the sound they produce to a memorized model. A distributed central pattern-generating circuit has now been identified that governs song production; the new results have important implications for the way songs are learned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mooney
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Spiro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D013687:Telencephalon / Q000502:physiology*; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*