A Neural Code That Is Isometric to Vocal Output and Correlates with Its Sensory Consequences

Rhythmic Continuous-Time Coding in the Songbird Analog of Vocal Motor Cortex

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Motor Origin of Precise Synaptic Inputs onto Forebrain Neurons Driving a Skilled Behavior

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Mesoscopic Patterns of Neural Activity Support Songbird Cortical Sequences

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Zebra Finch Mates Use Their Forebrain Song System in Unlearned Call Communication

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Evidence for a causal inverse model in an avian cortico-basal ganglia circuit

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Millisecond-Scale Motor Encoding in a Cortical Vocal Area

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A carbon-fiber electrode array for long-term neural recording

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At the interface of the auditory and vocal motor systems: NIf and its role in vocal processing, production and learning

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A Hebbian learning rule gives rise to mirror neurons and links them to control theoretic inverse models

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Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning

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Deafening Drives Cell-Type-Specific Changes to Dendritic Spines in a Sensorimotor Nucleus Important to Learned Vocalizations

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Regulation of learned vocal behavior by an auditory motor cortical nucleus in juvenile zebra finches

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An Efficient Coding Hypothesis Links Sparsity and Selectivity of Neural Responses

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New brain pathways found in the vocal control system of a songbird

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Manipulation of a Central Auditory Representation Shapes Learned Vocal Output

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Neural Processing of Short-Term Recurrence in Songbird Vocal Communication

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A Synaptic Basis for Auditory-Vocal Integration in the Songbird

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Spikes and Bursts in Two Types of Thalamic Projection Neurons Differentially Shape Sleep Patterns and Auditory Responses in a Songbird

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Central Contributions to Acoustic Variation in Birdsong

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Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway

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A Specialized Forebrain Circuit for Vocal Babbling in the Juvenile Songbird

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