The Role of the Basal Ganglia in the Development and Organization of Vocal Behavior in Songbirds

Movement signaling in ventral pallidum and dopaminergic midbrain is gated by behavioral state in singing birds

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Intrinsic motivation for singing in songbirds is enhanced by temporary singing suppression and regulated by dopamine

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Neural correlates of vocal initiation in the VTA/SNc of juvenile male zebra finches

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Social context-dependent singing alters molecular markers of synaptic plasticity signaling in finch basal ganglia Area X

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Dopamine, Updated: Reward Prediction Error and Beyond

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Songbird Ventral Pallidum Sends Diverse Performance Error Signals to Dopaminergic Midbrain

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Variation in sequence dynamics improves maintenance of stereotyped behavior in an example from bird song

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Discrete Evaluative and Premotor Circuits Enable Vocal Learning in Songbirds

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Learning from Action: Reconsidering Movement Signaling in Midbrain Dopamine Neuron Activity

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A taxonomy for vocal learning

(2019) Peter L. Tyack   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Birdsong as a window into language origins and evolutionary neuroscience

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Corticobasal ganglia projecting neurons are required for juvenile vocal learning but not for adult vocal plasticity in songbirds

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A Basal Ganglia Circuit Sufficient to Guide Birdsong Learning

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Integrating Brain and Biomechanical Models—A New Paradigm for Understanding Neuro-muscular Control

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Dopaminergic regulation of vocal-motor plasticity and performance

(2018) Sarah C Woolley   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Social context-dependent singing alters molecular markers of dopaminergic and glutamatergic signaling in finch basal ganglia Area X

(2018) Lisa Y. So et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Individual Movement Variability Magnitudes Are Explained by Cortical Neural Variability

(2017) Shlomi Haar et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Drive and Reinforcement Circuitry in the Brain: Origins, Neurotransmitters, and Projection Fields

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Dopaminergic modulation of basal ganglia output through coupled excitation–inhibition

(2017) Agata Budzillo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dopaminergic Contributions to Vocal Learning

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Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences

(2016) Masashi Tanaka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds

(2016) V. Gadagkar et al.   SCIENCE

Variability in neural activity and behavior

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A causal link between prediction errors, dopamine neurons and learning

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The Basal Ganglia Is Necessary for Learning Spectral, but Not Temporal, Features of Birdsong

(2013) Farhan Ali et al.   NEURON

Diminished FoxP2 Levels Affect Dopaminergic Modulation of Corticostriatal Signaling Important to Song Variability

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Dual Roles of Dopamine in Food and Drug Seeking: The Drive-Reward Paradox

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Updating dopamine reward signals

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Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit

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Changes in the neural control of a complex motor sequence during learning

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Striatal Dopamine Modulates Basal Ganglia Output and Regulates Social Context-Dependent Behavioral Variability through D1 Receptors

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Neural mechanisms for learned birdsong

(2009) R. Mooney   LEARNING & MEMORY

A basal ganglia-forebrain circuit in the songbird biases motor output to avoid vocal errors

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Organization of the songbird basal ganglia, including area X

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A Specialized Forebrain Circuit for Vocal Babbling in the Juvenile Songbird

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