High Vocal Center

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations. 
  • Deafening drives cell-type-specific changes to dendritic spines in a sensorimotor nucleus important to learned vocalizations. 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • Persistent representation of juvenile experience in the adult songbird brain. 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Recurrent interactions between the input and output of a songbird cortico-basal ganglia pathway are implicated in vocal sequence variability. 
  • Role of the midbrain dopaminergic system in modulation of vocal brain activation by social context. 
  • Specialized motor-driven dusp1 expression in the song systems of multiple lineages of vocal learning birds. 
  • Telencephalic neurons monosynaptically link brainstem and forebrain premotor networks necessary for song.