ArticlePloS one2013
Temperature induced syllable breaking unveils nonlinearly interacting timescales in birdsong motor pathway.
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- From perception to action in songbird production: dynamics of a whole loop.Current opinion in systems biology · 2017Article
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- 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
- Rhythmic syllable-related activity in a songbird motor thalamic nucleus necessary for learned vocalizations.PloS one · 2017Article
- Breathtaking Songs: Coordinating the Neural Circuits for Breathing and Singing.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Review
- An integrated model for motor control of song in Serinus canaria.Journal of physiology, Paris · 2016Article
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Abstract
The nature of telencephalic control over premotor and motor circuits is debated. Hypotheses range from complete usurping of downstream circuitry to highly interactive mechanisms of control. We show theoretically and experimentally, that telencephalic song motor control in canaries is consistent with a highly interactive strategy. As predicted from a theoretical model of respiratory control, mild cooling of a forebrain nucleus (HVC) led to song stretching, but further cooling caused progressive restructuring of song, consistent with the hypothesis that respiratory gestures are subharmonic responses to a timescale present in the output of HVC. This interaction between a life-sustaining motor function (respiration) and telencephalic song motor control suggests a more general mechanism of how nonlinear integration of evolutionarily new brain structures into existing circuitry gives rise to diverse, new behavior.
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