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SUBMITTER: Liberti WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5127780 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liberti William A WA Markowitz Jeffrey E JE Perkins L Nathan LN Liberti Derek C DC Leman Daniel P DP Guitchounts Grigori G Velho Tarciso T Kotton Darrell N DN Lois Carlos C Gardner Timothy J TJ
Nature neuroscience 20161010 12
Motor skills can be maintained for decades, but the biological basis of this memory persistence remains largely unknown. The zebra finch, for example, sings a highly stereotyped song that is stable for years, but it is not known whether the precise neural patterns underlying song are stable or shift from day to day. Here we demonstrate that the population of projection neurons coding for song in the premotor nucleus, HVC, change from day to day. The most dramatic shifts occur over intervals of s ...[more]