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Lesions in a songbird vocal circuit increase variability in song syntax.
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- Language-like properties in the vocal behavior of animals.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Real-Time Segmentation and Classification of Birdsong Syllables for Learning Experiments.eNeuro · 2026Article
- TweetyBERT: Automated parsing of birdsong through self-supervised machine learning.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- A species rules syntax model accurately organizes birdsong syllables into songs.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Comparative approaches to the neurobiology of avian vocal learning.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- The Temporal Organization of Learned Vocal Behavior Is Predicted by Species Rather Than Experience.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Exploring Anatomical Links Between the Crow's Nidopallium Caudolaterale and Its Song System.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Social context affects sequence modification learning in birdsong.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Note similarities affect syntactic stability in zebra finches.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Complex skills like speech and dance are composed of ordered sequences of simpler elements, but the neuronal basis for the syntactic ordering of actions is poorly understood. Birdsong is a learned vocal behavior composed of syntactically ordered syllables, controlled in part by the songbird premotor nucleus HVC (proper name). Here, we test whether one of HVC's recurrent inputs, mMAN (medial magnocellular nucleus of the anterior nidopallium), contributes to sequencing in adult male Bengalese finches (
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