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Heather Williams

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31

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2.1K

Citations

22

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1968

Active since

Affiliations

Williams College(Current)

University of Guelph

Rockefeller University

University of Windsor

Westminster College - Missouri

Heather Williams is an author at Williams College specializing in animal behavior, music, and evolutionary biology.

Top concepts

Animal BehaviorMusicEvolutionary BiologyBehavioral NeuroscienceSpeech PerceptionCognitive ScienceMedicineNervous SystemAuditory SystemBehavioral Science

Publications per year

1968–2022

31

Publications

31

Auditory Responses in Avian Vocal Motor Neurons: A Motor Theory for Song Perception in Birds

Heather Williams, Fernando Nottebohm · Science · 1985 · 238 citations

Music, Auditory Imagery, Psychoacoustics +23

Changes in adult zebra finch song require a forebrain nucleus that is not necessary for song production.

Heather Williams, Neil Mehta · PubMed · 1999 · 178 citations

Music, Vocal Plasticity, Neuropsychology +20

Changes in adult zebra finch song require a forebrain nucleus that is not necessary for song production

Heather Williams, Neil Mehta · Journal of Neurobiology · 1999 · 154 citations

Music, Vocal Plasticity, Neuropsychology +19

Song learning in birds: the relation between perception and production

Fernando Nottebohm, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, Jeffrey Cynx et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1990 · 143 citations

Right‐side dominance for song control in the zebra finch

Heather Williams, L.A. Crane, Timothy K. Hale et al. · Journal of Neurobiology · 1992 · 125 citations

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