ReviewProgress in brain research2014
The respiratory-vocal system of songbirds: anatomy, physiology, and neural control.
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- Androgen signaling in LMAN regulates song stereotypy in male canaries.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
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- Changes in the dopaminergic circuitry and adult neurogenesis linked to reinforcement learning in corvids.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- A brainstem circuit for phonation and volume control in mice.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
- Vocal tract shape variation contributes to individual vocal identity in African penguins.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Steroid-dependent plasticity in the song control system: Perineuronal nets and HVC neurogenesis.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2023Review
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- Preparing to sing: respiratory patterns underlying motor readiness for song.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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- Neuronal Switching between Single- and Dual-Network Activity via Modulation of Intrinsic Membrane Properties.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Breathing-driven prefrontal oscillations regulate maintenance of conditioned-fear evoked freezing independently of initiation.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Neural Code of Motor Planning and Execution during Goal-Directed Movements in Crows.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
This wide-ranging review presents an overview of the respiratory-vocal system in songbirds, which are the only other vertebrate group known to display a degree of respiratory control during song rivalling that of humans during speech; this despite the fact that the peripheral components of both the respiratory and vocal systems differ substantially in the two groups. We first provide a brief description of these peripheral components in songbirds (lungs, air sacs and respiratory muscles, vocal organ (syrinx), upper vocal tract) and then proceed to a review of the organization of central respiratory-related neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, the latter having an organization fundamentally similar to that of the ventral respiratory group of mammals. The second half of the review describes the nature of the motor commands generated in a specialized "cortical" song control circuit and how these might engage brainstem respiratory networks to shape the temporal structure of song. We also discuss a bilaterally projecting "respiratory-thalamic" pathway that links the respiratory system to "cortical" song control nuclei. This necessary pathway for song originates in the brainstem's primary inspiratory center and is hypothesized to play a vital role in synchronizing song motor commands both within and across hemispheres.
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