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Emerging Psychobiology of the Avian Song System

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Developmental Psychobiology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology ((HBNE,volume 13))

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This chapter builds on the excellent review of avian song development by [Bottjer and Arnold (1986)] that appeared in an earlier volume of this series ([Blass, 1986]). We first summarize the knowledge and perspectives on the neurobiology of song development and production of that time. We then present an overview of the major advances that have occurred since the earlier review, and finish with a description of the research avenues that we feel are likely to yield significant advances in our understanding of the neurobiology of bird song

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