Richard Daniel Mooney

Dataset · July 20, 2021 Holistic behaviors often require the coordination of innate and learned movements. The neural circuits that enable such coordination remain unknown. Here we identify a midbrain cell group (A11) that enables male zebra finches to coordinate their learned so ... Full text Cite

Data from: Low-dimensional learned feature spaces quantify individual and group differences in vocal repertoires

Dataset · May 24, 2021 Increases in the scale and complexity of behavioral data pose an increasing challenge for data analysis. A common strategy involves replacing entire behaviors with small numbers of handpicked, domain-specific features, but this approach suffers from severa ... Full text Cite

Data and scripts from: Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization

Dataset · December 18, 2020 Animals vocalize only in certain behavioral contexts, but the circuits and synapses through which forebrain neurons trigger or suppress vocalization remain unknown. Here we used transsynaptic tracing to identify two populations of inhibitory neurons that l ... Full text Cite