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SUBMITTER: Tian LY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tian Lucas Y LY Brainard Michael S MS
Neuron 20171116 5
Motor skills depend on the reuse of individual gestures in multiple sequential contexts (e.g., a single phoneme in different words). Yet optimal performance requires that a given gesture be modified appropriately depending on the sequence in which it occurs. To investigate the neural architecture underlying such context-dependent modifications, we studied Bengalese finch song, which, like speech, consists of variable sequences of "syllables." We found that when birds are instructed to modify a s ...[more]