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Development of Perineuronal Nets during Ontogeny Correlates with Sensorimotor Vocal Learning in Canaries.

Gilles Cornez, Clémentine Collignon, Wendt Müller, Charlotte A Cornil, Gregory F Ball, Jacques Balthazart

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Critical Periods and Beyond: Dynamic Functions of Perineuronal Nets in Cognition, Development, and Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gilles CornezBehavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab, GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium.
Clémentine CollignonBehavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab, GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium.
Wendt MüllerBehavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology Research group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp 2000, Belgium.
Charlotte A CornilBehavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab, GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium.
Gregory F BallDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, MD.ORCID 0000-0002-4784-0520
Jacques BalthazartBehavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab, GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium jbalthazart@uliege.be.ORCID 0000-0001-9492-2126
University of Liège · BEUniversity of Antwerp · BEUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

Steroid Hormone Regulation of Brain Plasticity and Vocal BehaviorR01NS104008 · NINDS · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI BALL, GREGORY F · 2018 to 2022
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NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Songbirds are a powerful model to study vocal learning given that aspects of the underlying behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms are analogous in many ways to mechanisms involved in speech learning. Perineuronal nets (PNNs) represent one of the mechanisms controlling the closing of sensitive periods for vocal learning in the songbird brain. In zebra finches, PNN develop around parvalbumin (PV)-expressing interneurons in selected song control nuclei during ontogeny and their development is delayed if juveniles are deprived of a tutor. However, song learning in zebra finches takes place during a relatively short period of development, and it is difficult to determine whether PNN development correlates with the end of the sensory or the sensorimotor learning period. Canaries have a longer period of sensorimotor vocal learning, spanning over their first year of life so that it should be easier to test whether PNN development correlates with the end of sensory or sensorimotor vocal learning. Here, we quantified PNN around PV-interneurons in the brain of male canaries from hatching until the first breeding season and analyzed in parallel the development of their song. PNN development around PV-interneurons specifically took place and their number reached its maximum around the end of the sensorimotor learning stage, well after the end of sensory vocal learning, and correlated with song development. This suggests that PNN are specifically involved in the termination of the sensitive period for sensorimotor vocal learning.

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FinchesSongbirdsAnimalsCanariesMaleNeuronal PlasticityParvalbuminsVocalization, AnimalParvalbuminsparvalbuminsensorimotor learningSerinus canariasong learningsong systemtestosterone

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PMID32169884
PMCPMC7160306
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