caa a22 4500 463175697 CHVBK 20180406164825.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10336-007-0242-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10336-007-0242-1 Transduction of a non-photic cue: from the auditory system to a neuroendocrine response? [Elektronische Daten] [Donna Maney, Christopher Goode, Gregory Ball] Decades of research have shown that exposure to social signals such as conspecific song enhances reproductive function in birds. How such signals are processed by the brain, and particularly how these signals are transduced into an endocrine response, is not well understood in songbirds. Here, we review evidence that in birds, social cues such as song induce in the brain a response that is in many ways similar to the response to photostimulation. Using the expression of immediate early genes to map neuronal responses to environmental cues, we and others have shown that the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) undergoes significant changes in patterns of neuronal activity in response to both photic and social cues. Thus, this brain region may participate in a final common pathway for the transduction of both kinds of cues into an endocrine response. Interestingly, female songbirds require prior photostimulation in order to respond either behaviorally or hormonally to hearing male song. We propose that this requirement involves the need for both the MBH and the auditory system to be primed with estrogen in order for auditory cues to initiate an endocrine response, and we present new evidence consistent with this hypothesis. Dt. Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V., 2007 Song nationallicence Estrogen nationallicence Photostimulation nationallicence Courtship nationallicence Gonadotropin-releasing hormone nationallicence Maney Donna Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Cir, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA aut Goode Christopher Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Cir, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA aut Ball Gregory Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 21218, Baltimore, MD, USA aut Journal of Ornithology Springer-Verlag 148(2007-12-01), 527-538 0021-8375 148<527 2007 148 10336 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-007-0242-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-007-0242-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maney Donna Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Cir, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goode Christopher Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 Kilgo Cir, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ball Gregory Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 21218, Baltimore, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Ornithology Springer-Verlag 148(2007-12-01), 527-538 0021-8375 148<527 2007 148 10336 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer