Vocal learning in songbirds requires cholinergic signaling in a motor cortex-like nucleus

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The Basal Forebrain and Motor Cortex Provide Convergent yet Distinct Movement-Related Inputs to the Auditory Cortex

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Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds

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Growth and splitting of neural sequences in songbird vocal development

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

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Visual Circuit Development Requires Patterned Activity Mediated by Retinal Acetylcholine Receptors

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

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Social reward requires coordinated activity of nucleus accumbens oxytocin and serotonin

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Changes in the neural control of a complex motor sequence during learning

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Vocal babbling in songbirds requires the basal ganglia-recipient motor thalamus but not the basal ganglia

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Two Distinct Modes of Forebrain Circuit Dynamics Underlie Temporal Patterning in the Vocalizations of Young Songbirds

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

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Neuron-Specific Cholinergic Modulation of a Forebrain Song Control Nucleus

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The Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System Is Required Specifically for Behaviorally Mediated Cortical Map Plasticity

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De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch

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A novel basal ganglia pathway forms a loop linking a vocal learning circuit with its dopaminergic input

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A Specialized Forebrain Circuit for Vocal Babbling in the Juvenile Songbird

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