Natural Changes in Brain Temperature Underlie Variations in Song Tempo during a Mating Behavior

Striatal dopamine modulates song spectral but not temporal features through D1 receptors

(2012) Arthur Leblois et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Control of Vocal and Respiratory Patterns in Birdsong: Dissection of Forebrain and Brainstem Mechanisms Using Temperature

(2011) Aaron S. Andalman et al.   PLoS One

Activity in a Cortical-Basal Ganglia Circuit for Song Is Required for Social Context-Dependent Vocal Variability

(2010) Laurie Stepanek et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

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

(2010) A. Leblois et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation

(2010) Michael A. Long et al.   NATURE

Dopamine receptors in a songbird brain

(2009) Lubica Kubikova 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

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

Temperature-Dependent Regulation of Vocal Pattern Generator

(2008) Ayako Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Neurons in a Forebrain Nucleus Required for Vocal Plasticity Rapidly Switch between Precise Firing and Variable Bursting Depending on Social Context

(2008) M. H. Kao et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathway

(2008) Michael A. Long et al.   NATURE

Assessing visual requirements for social context-dependent activation of the songbird song system

(2008) E. Hara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES