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ArticleCurrent opinion in systems biology2017

From perception to action in songbird production: dynamics of a whole loop.

Ana Amador, Santiago Boari, Gabriel B Mindlin

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Article in Current opinion in systems biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Nonlinear dynamics in the study of birdsong.Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana AmadorPhysics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA Conicet Int. Guiraldes 2160, Pab.1, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Santiago BoariPhysics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA Conicet Int. Guiraldes 2160, Pab.1, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gabriel B MindlinPhysics Department, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA Conicet Int. Guiraldes 2160, Pab.1, Ciudad Universitaria, (1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fundación Ciencias Exactas y Naturales · ARUniversity of Buenos Aires · AR

Funding

Mechanisms for producing complex sounds R01DC006876 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI GOLLER, FRANZ · 2005 to 2014
$2.5M
Neuromechanics of learned sensorimotor vocal integrationR01DC012859 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MARGOLIASH, DANIEL · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006876NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC012859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Birdsong emerges when a set of highly interconnected brain areas manage to generate a complex output. This consists of precise respiratory rhythms as well as motor instructions to control the vocal organ configuration. In this way, during birdsong production, dedicated cortical areas interact with life-supporting ones in the brainstem, such as the respiratory nuclei. We discuss an integrative view of this interaction together with a widely accepted "top-down" representation of the song system. We also show that a description of this neural network in terms of dynamical systems allows to explore songbird production and processing by generating testable predictions.

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birdsongdynamical systemsSensorimotor integration

Identifiers

PMID28695216
PMCPMC5501299
OpenAlexW2600363237

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