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The basal ganglia within a cognitive system in birds and mammals
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The basal ganglia within a cognitive system in birds and mammals

Christopher I. Petkov and Erich D. Jarvis
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.37(6), pp.568-569
12/01/2014
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13004160
PMCID: PMC4495319
PMID: 25514958
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/4495319View
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Abstract

The primate basal ganglia are fundamental to Ackermann et al.'s proposal. However, primates and rodents are models for human cognitive functions involving basal ganglia circuits, and links between striatal function and vocal communication come from songbirds. We suggest that the proposal is better integrated in cognitive and/or motor theories on spoken language origins and with more analogous nonhuman animal models.
Psychology Social Sciences Behavioral Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Neurosciences Neurosciences & Neurology Psychology, Biological Science & Technology

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