Assessing Visual Requirements For Social-context Dependent Activation Of The Songbird Song System
Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationVeterinary
This study shows that social context-dependent activation in the brain does not depend on simple sensory processes, such a vision, as one might expect. Instead, we believe that higher order associative processing occurs, where an individual animal may need to know through at least one sensory modality that another individual is present or that the sensory processing is highly indirect. This was shown in zebra finch males that sang to females, with one eye covered.
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