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Basal Ganglia: Songbird Models

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  1. Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie (UMR CNRS 8119), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Arthur Leblois

  2. Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Ran Darshan

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  1. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Leblois, A., Darshan, R. (2015). Basal Ganglia: Songbird Models. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_84

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