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Adult zebra finches rehearse highly variable song patterns during sleep.
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- Infants' Sleep Supports the Emergence and Mastery of Locomotor and Linguistic Skills.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Nightly changes in neural activity and auditory processing of song control neurons depend on melatonin.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- REM-sleep twitching in adults and the maintenance of specialized sensorimotor systems.Current biology : CB · 2026Review
- The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird's vocal performance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Song-like activation of syringeal and respiratory muscles during sleep in canaries.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- California mice (Peromyscus californicus) adjust mouth movements for vocal production during early postnatal development.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Zoofolkloristics: Imagination as a Critical Component.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Uncoordinated sleep replay across hemispheres in the zebra finch.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Importance of sleep for avian vocal communication.Biology letters · 2022Review
- Performance-Dependent Consolidation of Learned Vocal Changes in Adult Songbirds.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Replay of innate vocal patterns during night sleep in suboscines.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Synthetic Birdsongs as a Tool to Induce, and Iisten to, Replay Activity in Sleeping Birds.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Syringeal EMGs and synthetic stimuli reveal a switch-like activation of the songbird's vocal motor program.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Gating related activity in a syringeal muscle allows the reconstruction of zebra finches songs.Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Brain activity during sleep is fairly ubiquitous and the best studied possible function is a role in memory consolidation, including motor memory. One suggested mechanism of how neural activity effects these benefits is through reactivation of neurons in patterns resembling those of the preceding experience. The specific patterns of motor activation replayed during sleep are largely unknown for any system. Brain areas devoted to song production in the songbird brain exhibit spontaneous song-like activity during sleep, but single cell neural recordings did not permit detection of the specific song patterns. We have now discovered that this sleep activation can be detected in the muscles of the vocal organ, thus providing a unique window into song-related brain activity at night. We show that male zebra finches (
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