ReviewTrends in neurosciences2020
A Hierarchy of Autonomous Systems for Vocal Production.
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- Altricial brains and the evolution of infant vocal learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Central nervous system control of breathing in natural conversation turn-taking.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Oscillatory brain indexes of auditory-induced predictions about contingences during vocalizations.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Generative vocal plasticity in chimpanzees.iScience · 2025Article
- Two separate neural pathways, lateral and medial, for sensory decisions in mammals: switching of attention between the outer and inner cognitive worlds.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Active sampling as an information seeking strategy in primate vocal interactions.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Roles for cerebellum and subsumption architecture in central pattern generation.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Review
- Temporal scaling of motor cortical dynamics reveals hierarchical control of vocal production.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evolutionary continuity and divergence of auditory dorsal and ventral pathways in primates revealed by ultra-high field diffusion MRI.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Knowns and unknowns about the neurobiology of stuttering.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Midbrain node for context-specific vocalisation in fish.Nature communications · 2024Article
- From unimodal to multimodal dynamics of verbal and nonverbal cues during unstructured conversation.PloS one · 2024Article
- One respiratory cycle as a minimum time unit for making behavioral decisions in the mammalian olfactory system.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Active Sampling in Primate Vocal Interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The neurobiology of vocal communication in marmosets.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Review
- Interoceptive rhythms in the brain.Nature neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Vocal production is hierarchical in the time domain. These hierarchies build upon biomechanical and neural dynamics across various timescales. We review studies in marmoset monkeys, songbirds, and other vertebrates. To organize these data in an accessible and across-species framework, we interpret the different timescales of vocal production as belonging to different levels of an autonomous systems hierarchy. The first level accounts for vocal acoustics produced on short timescales; subsequent levels account for longer timescales of vocal output. The hierarchy of autonomous systems that we put forth accounts for vocal patterning, sequence generation, dyadic interactions, and context dependence by sequentially incorporating central pattern generators, intrinsic drives, and sensory signals from the environment. We then show the framework's utility by providing an integrative explanation of infant vocal production learning in which social feedback modulates infant vocal acoustics through the tuning of a drive signal.
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