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A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations.


ABSTRACT: How do forebrain and brainstem circuits interact to produce temporally precise and reproducible behaviors? Birdsong is an elaborate, temporally precise, and stereotyped vocal behavior controlled by a network of forebrain and brainstem nuclei. An influential idea is that song premotor neurons in a forebrain nucleus (HVC) form a synaptic chain that dictates song timing in a top-down manner. Here we combine physiological, dynamical, and computational methods to show that song timing is not generated solely by a mechanism localized to HVC but instead is the product of a distributed and recurrent synaptic network spanning the forebrain and brainstem, of which HVC is a component.

SUBMITTER: Hamaguchi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975959 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations.

Hamaguchi Kosuke K   Tanaka Masashi M   Mooney Richard R  

Neuron 20160707 3


How do forebrain and brainstem circuits interact to produce temporally precise and reproducible behaviors? Birdsong is an elaborate, temporally precise, and stereotyped vocal behavior controlled by a network of forebrain and brainstem nuclei. An influential idea is that song premotor neurons in a forebrain nucleus (HVC) form a synaptic chain that dictates song timing in a top-down manner. Here we combine physiological, dynamical, and computational methods to show that song timing is not generate  ...[more]

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