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SUBMITTER: Hamaguchi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975959 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]