ReviewBrain and language2010
The relationship of neurogenesis and growth of brain regions to song learning.
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- Altricial brains and the evolution of infant vocal learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Addition of new neurons and the emergence of a local neural circuit for precise timing.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Questioning Seasonality of Neuronal Plasticity in the Adult Avian Brain.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Prenatal environment affects embryonic response to song.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Possible linkage between neuronal recruitment and flight distance in migratory birds.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Determinants and significance of corticosterone regulation in the songbird brain.General and comparative endocrinology · 2016Review
- A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains to genomes.Biology letters · 2015Review
- Harnessing the master transcriptional repressor REST to reciprocally regulate neurogenesis.Neurogenesis (Austin, Tex.) · 2015Article
- Dissociable effects of social context on song and doublecortin immunoreactivity in male canaries.The European journal of neuroscience · 2014Article
- Dissection and downstream analysis of zebra finch embryos at early stages of development.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2014Article
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- miR-9 and miR-140-5p target FoxP2 and are regulated as a function of the social context of singing behavior in zebra finches.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013Article
- Comparative aspects of adult neural stem cell activity in vertebrates.Development genes and evolution · 2013Review
- Birds as a model to study adult neurogenesis: bridging evolutionary, comparative and neuroethological approaches.The European journal of neuroscience · 2011Review
- Song exposure regulates known and novel microRNAs in the zebra finch auditory forebrain.BMC genomics · 2011Article
- Getting a head start: diet, sub-adult growth, and associative learning in a seed-eating passerine.PloS one · 2011Article
- Evo-devo and brain scaling: candidate developmental mechanisms for variation and constancy in vertebrate brain evolution.Brain, behavior and evolution · 2011Review
- Developmental Modes and Developmental Mechanisms can Channel Brain Evolution.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2011Article
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Abstract
Song learning, maintenance and production require coordinated activity across multiple auditory, sensory-motor, and neuromuscular structures. Telencephalic components of the sensory-motor circuitry are unique to avian species that engage in song learning. The song system shows protracted development that begins prior to hatching but continues well into adulthood. The staggered developmental timetable for construction of the song system provides clues of subsystems involved in specific stages of song learning and maintenance. Progressive events, including neurogenesis and song system growth, as well as regressive events such as apoptosis and synapse elimination, occur during periods of song learning and the transitions between variable and stereotyped song during both development and adulthood. There is clear evidence that gonadal steroids influence the development of song attributes and shape the underlying neural circuitry. Some aspects of song system development are influenced by sensory, motor and social experience, while other aspects of neural development appear to be experience-independent. Although there are species differences in the extent to which song learning continues into adulthood, growing evidence suggests that despite differences in learning trajectories, adult refinement of song motor control and song maintenance can require remarkable behavioral and neural flexibility reminiscent of sensory-motor learning.
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