Figure 5

Overexpression of human NR2B induced changes in song motif structure. (a) Average number of syllables per song motif. (b) Mean number of introductory notes per song motif. (c) Song motif duration. (d) Intersyllable gap durations. (e) Average of all syllable durations (bird Red08 of the control group appeared to be an outlier, which was confirmed by a Dixon’s test in R in both presurgery (p = 0.02) and postsurgery (p < 0.0001) conditions, and thus not included in the statistical analyses of the entire group. Each line is one animal presurgery and postsurgery, mean ± SE, with p values determined using paired Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.