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Dopamine Depletion Affects Vocal Acoustics and Disrupts Sensorimotor Adaptation in Songbirds.
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- Neural mechanism of dopamine modulating singing related behavior in songbirds: an updated review.PeerJ · 2025Review
- A versatile pipeline to identify convergently lost ancestral conserved fragments associated with convergent evolution of vocal learning.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Article
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- Mapping the vocal circuitry of Alston's singing mouse with pseudorabies virus.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2022Article
- Unsupervised Bayesian Ising Approximation for decoding neural activity and other biological dictionaries.eLife · 2022Article
- New roles for dopamine in motor skill acquisition: lessons from primates, rodents, and songbirds.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- What Is the Role of Thalamostriatal Circuits in Learning Vocal Sequences?Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Article
- Unilateral vocal nerve resection alters neurogenesis in the avian song system in a region-specific manner.PloS one · 2021Article
- Actor-critic reinforcement learning in the songbird.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020Review
- Application of the hierarchical bootstrap to multi-level data in neuroscience.Neurons, behavior, data analysis, and theory · 2020Article
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Abstract
Dopamine is hypothesized to convey error information in reinforcement learning tasks with explicit appetitive or aversive cues. However, during motor skill learning feedback signals arise from an animal's evaluation of sensory feedback resulting from its own behavior, rather than any external reward or punishment. It has previously been shown that intact dopaminergic signaling from the ventral tegmental area/substantia nigra pars compacta (VTA/SNc) complex is necessary for vocal learning when songbirds modify their vocalizations to avoid hearing distorted auditory feedback (playbacks of white noise). However, it remains unclear whether dopaminergic signaling underlies vocal learning in response to more naturalistic errors (pitch-shifted feedback delivered via headphones). We used male Bengalese finches (
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