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1989 • 346 citations

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1992 • 233 citations

The distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the brains of male and female zebra finches

1993 • 211 citations

Evidence for a catecholaminergic projection to area X in the zebra finch

1981 • 210 citations

Singing-Related Neural Activity in a Dorsal Forebrain–Basal Ganglia Circuit of Adult Zebra Finches

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1991 • 187 citations

Role of syringeal muscles in controlling the phonology of bird song

1996 • 186 citations

Long-Range Inhibition Within the Zebra Finch Song Nucleus RA Can Coordinate the Firing of Multiple Projection Neurons

1999 • 172 citations

Topographic organization of a forebrain pathway involved with vocal learning in zebra finches

1995 • 156 citations

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Synaptic connections of thalamo-cerebral vocal nuclei of the canary

1987 • 151 citations

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1995 • 143 citations

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1997 • 100 citations

Identification of the Anterior Nucleus of the Ansa Lenticularis in Birds as the Homolog of the Mammalian Subthalamic Nucleus

2000 • 91 citations

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1994 • 75 citations

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1995 • 54 citations

Distribution of GABA-like immunoreactivity in the song system of the zebra finch

1994 • 51 citations

Neural mechanisms of vocal production in songbirds

1991 • 39 citations

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1998 • 30 citations

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Long‐range GABAergic projection in a circuit essential for vocal learning

1999 • 11 citations

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1998 • 3 citations