ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2026
Nightly changes in neural activity and auditory processing of song control neurons depend on melatonin.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Birdsong, as many complex behavioral patterns, needs to be acquired, maintained and adjusted throughout life. In songbirds, these tasks are held by a specialized neural network, the song control system. Nightly sleep has been shown to be highly relevant for the song learning and maintenance process. Distinct diurnal changes in neuronal activity can be observed in several song control areas expressing melatonin receptors, frequently in inhibitory interneurons. By disentangling the effect of melatonin from the confounding effects of sleep while continuously monitoring the activity of individual neurons in the song control system of freely moving adult male zebra finches for several days, we show a direct effect of melatonin on spontaneous as well as auditory evoked activity of song control neurons. We therefore suggest melatonin as an endocrine switch that enables night-time neural functions of song control neurons, crucial for formation and consolidation of song motor memory.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42243553What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.