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SUBMITTER: Achiro JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5762157 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Achiro Jennifer M JM Shen John J Bottjer Sarah W SW
eLife 20171219
Cortico-basal ganglia circuits are thought to mediate goal-directed learning by a process of outcome evaluation to gradually select appropriate motor actions. We investigated spiking activity in core and shell subregions of the cortical nucleus LMAN during development as juvenile zebra finches are actively engaged in evaluating feedback of self-generated behavior in relation to their memorized tutor song (the goal). Spiking patterns of single neurons in both core and shell subregions during sing ...[more]