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SUBMITTER: Xiao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5918681 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20180315 1
Learning vocal behaviors, like speech and birdsong, is thought to rely on continued performance evaluation. Whether candidate performance evaluation circuits in the brain are sufficient to guide vocal learning is not known. Here, we test the sufficiency of VTA projections to the vocal basal ganglia in singing zebra finches, a songbird species that learns to produce a complex and stereotyped multi-syllabic courtship song during development. We optogenetically manipulate VTA axon terminals in sing ...[more]