Advantages of comparative studies in songbirds to understand the neural basis of sensorimotor integration

Sensorimotor control of vocal pitch and formant frequencies in Parkinson's disease

(2016) Fatemeh Mollaei et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

A sensorimotor area in the songbird brain is required for production of vocalizations in the song learning period of development

(2016) Hande C. Piristine et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Dopaminergic Contributions to Vocal Learning

(2016) L. A. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

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

(2016) Galen F. Lynch et al.   NEURON

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

Inhibition protects acquired song segments during vocal learning in zebra finches

(2016) D. Vallentin et al.   SCIENCE

Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds

(2016) V. Gadagkar et al.   SCIENCE

Forebrain circuits underlying the social modulation of vocal communication signals

(2015) Laura E. Matheson et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Variability in the temporal parameters in the song of the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica)

(2015) Ryosuke O. Tachibana et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Predicting plasticity: acute context-dependent changes to vocal performance predict long-term age-dependent changes

(2015) Logan S. James et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

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

(2015) D. Vallentin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Imaging Auditory Representations of Song and Syllables in Populations of Sensorimotor Neurons Essential to Vocal Communication

(2015) W. Y. X. Peh et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Acute off-target effects of neural circuit manipulations

(2015) Timothy M. Otchy et al.   NATURE

Human mutant huntingtin disrupts vocal learning in transgenic songbirds

(2015) Wan-chun Liu et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Optogenetics: 10 years of microbial opsins in neuroscience

(2015) Karl Deisseroth   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The role of tactile afference in shaping motor behaviour and implications for prosthetic innovation

(2015) Rochelle Ackerley et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Variability in action: Contributions of a songbird cortical-basal ganglia circuit to vocal motor learning and control

(2015) S.C. Woolley et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Birdsong memory and the brain: In search of the template

(2015) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Role of the site of synaptic competition and the balance of learning forces for Hebbian encoding of probabilistic Markov sequences

(2015) Kristofer E. Bouchard et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Motor practice effects and sensorimotor integration in adults who stutter: Evidence from visuomotor tracking performance

(2015) Victoria Tumanova et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS

Mesoscopic Patterns of Neural Activity Support Songbird Cortical Sequences

(2015) Jeffrey E. Markowitz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Relationship between the Sequencing and Timing of Vocal Motor Elements in Birdsong

(2015) Andrew M. M. Matheson et al.   PLoS One

Male mate preferences in mutual mate choice: finches modulate their songs across and within male–female interactions

(2014) Abbie Heinig et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal motor changes beyond the sensitive period for song plasticity

(2014) Logan S. James et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

A Higher Sensory Brain Region Is Involved in Reversing Reinforcement-Induced Vocal Changes in a Songbird

(2014) A. Canopoli et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Vocal Generalization Depends on Gesture Identity and Sequence

(2014) L. A. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

(2014) A. R. Pfenning et al.   SCIENCE

Basal ganglia function, stuttering, sequencing, and repair in adult songbirds

(2014) Lubica Kubikova et al.   Scientific Reports

Correction: A role for descending auditory cortical projections in songbird vocal learning

(2014) Yael Mandelblat-Cerf et al.   eLife

Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches

(2014) Kosuke Hamaguchi et al.   eLife

Translating Birdsong: Songbirds as a Model for Basic and Applied Medical Research

(2013) Michael S. Brainard et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

A simple explanation for the evolution of complex song syntax in Bengalese finches

(2013) K. Katahira et al.   Biology Letters

Motor Cortex Broadly Engages Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons in Somatosensory Barrel Cortex

(2013) A. K. Kinnischtzke et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Neural maps in the electrosensory system of weakly electric fish

(2013) Rüdiger Krahe et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Auditory signal processing in communication: Perception and performance of vocal sounds

(2013) Jonathan F. Prather   HEARING RESEARCH

The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors

(2013) M. S. Fee et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

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

(2013) Brian Lewandowski et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-PARIS

Sensorimotor adaptation of speech in Parkinson's disease

(2013) Fatemeh Mollaei et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

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

(2013) Malavika Murugan et al.   NEURON

Activity in a Premotor Cortical Nucleus of Zebra Finches Is Locally Organized and Exhibits Auditory Selectivity in Neurons but Not in Glia

(2013) Michael H. Graber et al.   PLoS One

Variable Sequencing Is Actively Maintained in a Well Learned Motor Skill

(2012) T. L. Warren et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Recurrent Interactions between the Input and Output of a Songbird Cortico-Basal Ganglia Pathway Are Implicated in Vocal Sequence Variability

(2012) K. Hamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit

(2012) Jonathan D. Charlesworth et al.   NATURE

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

(2012) Todd F Roberts et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Seasonal Changes in Patterns of Gene Expression in Avian Song Control Brain Regions

(2012) Christopher K. Thompson et al.   PLoS One

Learning-Related Neuronal Activation in the Zebra Finch Song System Nucleus HVC in Response to the Bird’s Own Song

(2012) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   PLoS One

Song Complexity and Auditory Feedback in Birds: A Comparison between Two Strains of Bengalese Finches with Different Degrees of Song Complexity

(2012) Hiroko Kagawa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Distinct Neurogenomic States in Basal Ganglia Subregions Relate Differently to Singing Behavior in Songbirds

(2012) Austin T. Hilliard et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Evolution of the amniote pallium and the origins of mammalian neocortex

(2011) Ann B. Butler et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Motor Functions of the Superior Colliculus

(2011) Neeraj J. Gandhi et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

What is the biological basis of sensorimotor integration?

(2011) Martha Flanders   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

A Descriptive Analysis of Language and Speech Skills in 4- to 5-Yr-Old Children With Hearing Loss

(2011) Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick et al.   EAR AND HEARING

What Does Broca's Area Activation to Sentences Reflect?

(2011) Gregory Hickok et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Integrating perspectives on vocal performance and consistency

(2011) J. T. Sakata et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Katja Naie et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Mechanisms and time course of vocal learning and consolidation in the adult songbird

(2011) Timothy L. Warren et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Linear and nonlinear auditory response properties of interneurons in a high-order avian vocal motor nucleus during wakefulness

(2011) Jonathan N. Raksin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Neural Coding of Syntactic Structure in Learned Vocalizations in the Songbird

(2011) H. Fujimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Learning the microstructure of successful behavior

(2011) Jonathan D Charlesworth et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules

(2011) Kentaro Abe et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Motor pathway convergence predicts syllable repertoire size in oscine birds

(2011) J. M. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular characterization of the song control nucleus HVC in Bengalese finch brain

(2010) Masaki Kato et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Statistical and Prosodic Cues for Song Segmentation Learning by Bengalese Finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica)

(2010) Miki Takahasi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Connections of the auditory brainstem in a songbird,Taeniopygia guttata. III. Projections of the superior olive and lateral lemniscal nuclei

(2010) J. Martin Wild et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Connections of the auditory brainstem in a Songbird,Taeniopygia guttata.I. Projections of nucleus angularis and nucleus laminaris to the auditory torus

(2010) Nils O.E. Krützfeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Connections of the auditory brainstem in a songbird,Taeniopygia guttata.II. Projections of nucleus angularis and nucleus laminaris to the superior olive and lateral lemniscal nuclei

(2010) Nils O.E. Krützfeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Persistent Representation of Juvenile Experience in the Adult Songbird Brain

(2010) J. F. Prather et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Linked Control of Syllable Sequence and Phonology in Birdsong

(2010) M. J. Wohlgemuth et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation

(2010) Michael A. Long et al.   NATURE

Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition

(2010) Patricia K. Kuhl   NEURON

Representation of the bird's own song in the canary HVC: contribution of broadly tuned neurons

(2010) K. Lehongre et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Speech Production Accuracy and Variability in Young Cochlear Implant Recipients: Comparisons With Typically Developing Age-Peers

(2010) David J. Ertmer et al.   JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH

Sleep, off-line processing, and vocal learning

(2009) Daniel Margoliash et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Neurobiology of song learning

(2009) Richard Mooney   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Early Language Development in Children with Profound Hearing Loss Fitted with a Device at a Young Age: Part I—The Time Period Taken to Acquire First Words and First Word Combinations

(2009) Pauline Nott et al.   EAR AND HEARING

Collateral projection from the locus coeruleus to whisker-related sensory and motor brain regions of the rat

(2009) Sat-Byol Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

An Avian Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuit Contributes Differentially to Syllable Versus Sequence Variability of Adult Bengalese Finch Song

(2009) Cara M. Hampton et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Social Context Rapidly Modulates the Influence of Auditory Feedback on Avian Vocal Motor Control

(2009) Jon T. Sakata et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

The effect of altered auditory feedback on control of vocal production in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

(2009) Michael S. Osmanski et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Neural mechanisms for learned birdsong

(2009) R. Mooney   LEARNING & MEMORY

Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction

(2009) Samuel J Sober et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Parallel pathways for vocal learning in basal ganglia of songbirds

(2009) Sarah W Bottjer et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication

(2009) Jonathan F Prather et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Generating variable birdsong syllable sequences with branching chain networks in avian premotor nucleus HVC

(2009) Dezhe Z. Jin   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

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

(2009) A. S. Andalman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Corollary discharge circuits in the primate brain

(2008) Trinity B Crapse et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The Characteristics of Prelexical Babbling After Cochlear Implantation Between 5 and 20 Months of Age

(2008) Karen Schauwers et al.   EAR AND HEARING

THE LEARNING OF SONG PATTERNS BY BIRDS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SONG OF THE CHAFFINCH FRINGILLA COELEBS

(2008) W. H. Thorpe   IBIS

Social Modulation of Sequence and Syllable Variability in Adult Birdsong

(2008) Jon T. Sakata et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Online Contributions of Auditory Feedback to Neural Activity in Avian Song Control Circuitry

(2008) J. T. Sakata et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Telencephalic Neurons Monosynaptically Link Brainstem and Forebrain Premotor Networks Necessary for Song

(2008) T. F. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird

(2008) Georg B. Keller et al.   NATURE

Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication

(2008) J. F. Prather et al.   NATURE

Functional identification of sensory mechanisms required for developmental song learning

(2008) Sarah E London et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

'Where' and 'what' in the whisker sensorimotor system

(2008) Mathew E. Diamond et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neurons and objects: the case of auditory cortex

(2008) Israel Nelken   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Comparative analysis of gene expressions among avian brains: A molecular approach to the evolution of vocal learning

(2007) Eiji Matsunaga et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN

Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech

(2007) Jason A. Tourville et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Visual Perception and Corollary Discharge

(2007) Marc A Sommer et al.   PERCEPTION