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Rapid interhemispheric switching during vocal production in a songbird.
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- Manipulations of inhibition in cortical circuitry differentially affect spectral and temporal features of Bengalese finch song.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Songbirds work around computational complexity by learning song vocabulary independently of sequence.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Cortical inter-hemispheric circuits for multimodal vocal learning in songbirds.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2017Article
- Temperature Manipulation in Songbird Brain Implicates the Premotor Nucleus HVC in Birdsong Syntax.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017Article
- A fast and accurate zebra finch syllable detector.PloS one · 2017Article
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- Predicting plasticity: acute context-dependent changes to vocal performance predict long-term age-dependent changes.Journal of neurophysiology · 2015Article
- Learning-related brain hemispheric dominance in sleeping songbirds.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Speech dynamics are coded in the left motor cortex in fluent speakers but not in adults who stutter.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2015Article
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Abstract
To generate complex bilateral motor patterns such as those underlying birdsong, neural activity must be highly coordinated across the two cerebral hemispheres. However, it remains largely elusive how this coordination is achieved given that interhemispheric communication between song-control areas in the avian cerebrum is restricted to projections received from bilaterally connecting areas in the mid- and hindbrain. By electrically stimulating cerebral premotor areas in zebra finches, we find that behavioral effectiveness of stimulation rapidly switches between hemispheres. In time intervals in which stimulation in one hemisphere tends to distort songs, stimulation in the other hemisphere is mostly ineffective, revealing an idiosyncratic form of motor dominance that bounces back and forth between hemispheres like a virtual ping-pong ball. The intervals of lateralized effectiveness are broadly distributed and are unrelated to simple spectral and temporal song features. Such interhemispheric switching could be an important dynamical aspect of neural coordination that may have evolved from simpler pattern generator circuits.
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