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

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Unstable neurons underlie a stable learned behavior

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Naturalistic stimulation drives opposing heterosynaptic plasticity at two inputs to songbird cortex

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Robust timing and motor patterns by taming chaos in recurrent neural networks

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

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Predictive Coding of Dynamical Variables in Balanced Spiking Networks

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Birds as a model to study adult neurogenesis: bridging evolutionary, comparative and neuroethological approaches

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Premotor synaptic plasticity limited to the critical period for song learning

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Deafening-Induced Vocal Deterioration in Adult Songbirds Is Reversed by Disrupting a Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuit

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Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction

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

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