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SUBMITTER: Ali F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3929499 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ali Farhan F Otchy Timothy M TM Pehlevan Cengiz C Fantana Antoniu L AL Burak Yoram Y Ölveczky Bence P BP
Neuron 20130926 2
Executing a motor skill requires the brain to control which muscles to activate at what times. How these aspects of control-motor implementation and timing-are acquired, and whether the learning processes underlying them differ, is not well understood. To address this, we used a reinforcement learning paradigm to independently manipulate both spectral and temporal features of birdsong, a complex learned motor sequence, while recording and perturbing activity in underlying circuits. Our results u ...[more]