Finches

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations. 
  • A common neural circuit mechanism for internally guided and externally reinforced forms of motor learning. 
  • A mesocortical dopamine circuit enables the cultural transmission of vocal behaviour. 
  • A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes. 
  • A synaptic basis for auditory-vocal integration in the songbird. 
  • Acute injections of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a vocal premotor nucleus reversibly disrupt adult birdsong stability and trigger syllable deletion. 
  • As above, so below: Whole transcriptome profiling demonstrates strong molecular similarities between avian dorsal and ventral pallial subdivisions. 
  • Assessing visual requirements for social context-dependent activation of the songbird song system. 
  • Auditory plasticity in a basal ganglia-forebrain pathway during decrystallization of adult birdsong. 
  • Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches. 
  • Avian nucleus retroambigualis: cell types and projections to other respiratory-vocal nuclei in the brain of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). 
  • Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches. 
  • Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird. 
  • Comparison of Categorical Color Perception in Two Estrildid Finches. 
  • Computational inference of neural information flow networks. 
  • Controlling for activity-dependent genes and behavioral states is critical for determining brain relationships within and across species. 
  • Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds. 
  • Core and region-enriched networks of behaviorally regulated genes and the singing genome. 
  • Deafening drives cell-type-specific changes to dendritic spines in a sensorimotor nucleus important to learned vocalizations. 
  • Different mechanisms are responsible for dishabituation of electrophysiological auditory responses to a change in acoustic identity than to a change in stimulus location. 
  • Discrete Evaluative and Premotor Circuits Enable Vocal Learning in Songbirds. 
  • Divergence in problem-solving skills is associated with differential expression of glutamate receptors in wild finches. 
  • Divergent projections from locus coeruleus to the corticobasal ganglia system and ventral tegmental area of the adult male zebra finch. 
  • Dopamine receptors in a songbird brain. 
  • Early onset of deafening-induced song deterioration and differential requirements of the pallial-basal ganglia vocal pathway. 
  • Efficacy and safety of filgotinib alone and in combination with methotrexate in Japanese patients with active rheumatoid arthritis and limited or no prior exposure to methotrexate: Subpopulation analyses of 24-week data of a global phase 3 study (FINCH 3). 
  • Efficacy and safety of filgotinib in combination with methotrexate in Japanese patients with active rheumatoid arthritis who have an inadequate response to methotrexate: Subpopulation analyses of 24-week data of a global phase 3 study (FINCH 1). 
  • Estrogen and sex-dependent loss of the vocal learning system in female zebra finches. 
  • Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences. 
  • Generative models of birdsong learning link circadian fluctuations in song variability to changes in performance. 
  • Identification and characterization of primordial germ cells in a vocal learning Neoaves species, the zebra finch. 
  • Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning. 
  • Imaging auditory representations of song and syllables in populations of sensorimotor neurons essential to vocal communication. 
  • Induction of an immortalized songbird cell line allows for gene characterization and knockout by CRISPR-Cas9. 
  • Influence of visual background on discrimination of signal-relevant colours in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata ). 
  • Interspecies avian brain chimeras reveal that large brain size differences are influenced by cell-interdependent processes. 
  • Listening in. 
  • MIN1PIPE: A Miniscope 1-Photon-Based Calcium Imaging Signal Extraction Pipeline. 
  • Mammalian genes induce partially reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells in non-mammalian vertebrate and invertebrate species. 
  • Manipulation of a central auditory representation shapes learned vocal output. 
  • Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning. 
  • Neural dynamics underlying birdsong practice and performance. 
  • Overexpression of human NR2B receptor subunit in LMAN causes stuttering and song sequence changes in adult zebra finches. 
  • Oxytocin variation and brain region-specific gene expression in a domesticated avian species. 
  • Physiology of neuronal subtypes in the respiratory-vocal integration nucleus retroamigualis of the male zebra finch. 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Profiling of experience-regulated proteins in the songbird auditory forebrain using quantitative proteomics. 
  • Rapid spine stabilization and synaptic enhancement at the onset of behavioural learning. 
  • Role of the midbrain dopaminergic system in modulation of vocal brain activation by social context. 
  • Social context-dependent singing-regulated dopamine. 
  • Song decrystallization in adult zebra finches does not require the song nucleus NIf. 
  • Synaptic interactions underlying song-selectivity in the avian nucleus HVC revealed by dual intracellular recordings. 
  • Telencephalic neurons monosynaptically link brainstem and forebrain premotor networks necessary for song. 
  • Thalamic gating of auditory responses in telencephalic song control nuclei. 
  • The HVC microcircuit: the synaptic basis for interactions between song motor and vocal plasticity pathways. 
  • The genome of a songbird. 
  • The pallial basal ganglia pathway modulates the behaviorally driven gene expression of the motor pathway. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hartemink, Alexander J., Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Biology