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Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules
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Metadata
- Authors
- Abe, K., & Watanabe, D.
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2011-06-26
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1067-1074
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W1971567117
- Cited by
- 197
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 15.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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