Differential Emotional Experience Leads to Pruning of Dendritic Spines in the Forebrain of Domestic Chicks

Auditory filial imprinting induces quantitative changes of synaptic density in the forebrain area mediorostral neostriatum/hyperstriatum ventrale of the domestic chick. The aim of the present study was to examine the time window and the extent and quality of experience that is required for the induc...

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Main Authors: Jörg Bock, Katharina Braun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1998-01-01
Series:Neural Plasticity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/NP.1998.17