The Genomics of Memory and Learning in Songbirds

High throughput analysis reveals dissociable gene expression profiles in two independent neural systems involved in the regulation of social behavior

(2012) Tyler J Stevenson et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Early experience shapes vocal neural coding and perception in songbirds

(2012) Sarah M. N. Woolley   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Early life experience primes resistance to oxidative stress

(2012) D. Costantini et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Large-Scale Synchronized Activity during Vocal Deviance Detection in the Zebra Finch Auditory Forebrain

(2012) G. J. L. Beckers et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Comparisons of different methods to train a young zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) to learn a song

(2012) Sébastien Derégnaucourt et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-PARIS

Current state-of-the-art of auditory functional MRI (fMRI) on zebra finches: Technique and scientific achievements

(2012) Lisbeth Van Ruijssevelt et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-PARIS

Rescue of aging-associated decline in Dnmt3a2 expression restores cognitive abilities

(2012) Ana M M Oliveira et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Molecular Microcircuitry Underlies Functional Specification in a Basal Ganglia Circuit Dedicated to Vocal Learning

(2012) Austin T. Hilliard et al.   NEURON

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

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

Experience with Adults Shapes Multisensory Representation of Social Familiarity in the Brain of a Songbird

(2012) Isabelle George et al.   PLoS One

Impact of experience-dependent and -independent factors on gene expression in songbird brain

(2012) J. Drnevich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conserved epigenetic sensitivity to early life experience in the rat and human hippocampus

(2012) M. Suderman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a new biology of social adversity

(2012) W. T. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort

(2012) L. L. Lam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Putting the concept of biological embedding in historical perspective

(2012) C. Hertzman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan

(2012) B. J. Heidinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Automated auditory recognition training and testing

(2011) Austen Gess et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Song exposure regulates known and novel microRNAs in the zebra finch auditory forebrain

(2011) Preethi H Gunaratne et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The role of auditory feedback in vocal learning and maintenance

(2011) Katherine Tschida et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Expression and rapid experience-dependent regulation of type-A GABAergic receptors in the songbird auditory forebrain

(2011) Jin Kwon Jeong et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Mechanisms of dendritic mRNA transport and its role in synaptic tagging

(2011) Michael Doyle et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Cognition

(2011) Jeremy J. Day et al.   NEURON

A hypothesis for basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning in the songbird

(2011) M.S. Fee et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Dynamic Expression of Cadherins Regulates Vocal Development in a Songbird

(2011) Eiji Matsunaga et al.   PLoS One

Neural Correlates of Threat Perception: Neural Equivalence of Conspecific and Heterospecific Mobbing Calls Is Learned

(2011) Marc T. Avey et al.   PLoS One

Quantification of developmental birdsong learning from the subsyllabic scale to cultural evolution

(2011) D. Lipkind et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For better or worse: reduced adult lifespan following early-life stress is transmitted to breeding partners

(2011) P. Monaghan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deprivation of maternal care has long-lasting consequences for the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis of zebra finches

(2011) S. B. Banerjee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Experience Gets Under the Skin to Create Gradients in Developmental Health

(2010) Clyde Hertzman et al.   Annual Review of Public Health

Auditory representations and memory in birdsong learning

(2010) Richard HR Hahnloser et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

A bird's eye view of neural circuit formation

(2010) Bence P Ölveczky et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The Zebra Finch: the ultimate Australian supermodel

(2010) Simon C. Griffith et al.   EMU

Song Learning in Zebra Finches Exposed to a Series of Tutors during the Sensitive Phase

(2010) P. J. B. Slater et al.   ETHOLOGY

Knockdown of FoxP2 alters spine density in Area X of the zebra finch

(2010) S. B. Schulz et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Brain expression and song regulation of the cholecystokinin gene in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2010) Peter V. Lovell et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Organization and development of zebra finch HVC and paraHVC based on expression of zRalDH, an enzyme associated with retinoic acid production

(2010) Christopher R. Olson et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Language-relatedCntnap2gene is differentially expressed in sexually dimorphic song nuclei essential for vocal learning in songbirds

(2010) S. Carmen Panaitof et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Distress call-induced gene expression in the brain of the Indian short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx

(2010) Ambigapathy Ganesh et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

DNA methylation and memory formation

(2010) Jeremy J Day et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Memory in the making: localized brain activation related to song learning in young songbirds

(2010) S. M. H. Gobes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual differentiation of the zebra finch song system: potential roles for sex chromosome genes

(2009) Michelle L Tomaszycki et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Integrating Genomes, Brain and Behavior in the Study of Songbirds

(2009) David F. Clayton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Developmental shifts in gene expression in the auditory forebrain during the sensitive period for song learning

(2009) Sarah E. London et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Estradiol Shapes Auditory Processing in the Adult Brain by Regulating Inhibitory Transmission and Plasticity-Associated Gene Expression

(2009) L. A. Tremere et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Seasonal Differences of Gene Expression Profiles in Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) Hypothalamus in Relation to Territorial Aggression

(2009) Motoko Mukai et al.   PLoS One

Discrete molecular states in the brain accompany changing responses to a vocal signal

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

The Songbird Neurogenomics (SoNG) Initiative: community-based tools and strategies for study of brain gene function and evolution

(2008) Kirstin L Replogle et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Partial dissociation of molecular and behavioral measures of song habituation in adult zebra finches

(2008) S. Dong et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

RNAs as extracellular signaling molecules

(2008) Marcel E Dinger et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Synapsins Are Late Activity-Induced Genes Regulated by Birdsong

(2008) T. A. F. Velho et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Functional identification of sensory mechanisms required for developmental song learning

(2008) Sarah E London et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Habituation in songbirds

(2008) Shu Dong et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Birdsong “Transcriptomics”: Neurochemical Specializations of the Oscine Song System

(2008) Peter V. Lovell et al.   PLoS One

Retinoic acid regulates RAR -mediated control of translation in dendritic RNA granules during homeostatic synaptic plasticity

(2008) B. Maghsoodi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social Context–Induced Song Variation Affects Female Behavior and Gene Expression

(2008) Sarah C Woolley et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

TECHNICAL ADVANCES: A microarray for large-scale genomic and transcriptional analyses of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and other passerines

(2007) SARA NAURIN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Protein synthesis inhibition and memory: Formation vs amnesia

(2007) Paul E. Gold   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Sexual and social stimuli elicit rapid and contrasting genomic responses

(2007) M. E Cummings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES