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SUBMITTER: Roberts TF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3458123 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roberts Todd F TF Gobes Sharon M H SM Murugan Malavika M Ölveczky Bence P BP Mooney Richard R
Nature neuroscience 20120916 10
Premotor circuits help generate imitative behaviors and can be activated during observation of another animal's behavior, leading to speculation that these circuits participate in sensory learning that is important to imitation. Here we tested this idea by focally manipulating the brain activity of juvenile zebra finches, which learn to sing by memorizing and vocally copying the song of an adult tutor. Tutor song-contingent optogenetic or electrical disruption of neural activity in the pupil's s ...[more]