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SUBMITTER: Yanagihara S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919517 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160621
As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of adult tutor songs, which they use to shape their own vocalizations in later sensorimotor learning. The higher-level auditory cortex, called the caudomedial nidopallium (NCM), is a potential storage site for tutor song memory, but no direct electrophysiological evidence of tutor song memory has been found. Here, we identify th ...[more]