Skip to search formSkip to main contentSkip to account menu
Auditory feedback is necessary for the maintenance of stereotyped song in adult zebra finches.
View on PubMed
Selective impairment of song learning following lesions of a forebrain nucleus in the juvenile zebra finch.
View on PubMed
Blockade of NMDA Receptors in the Anterior Forebrain Impairs Sensory Acquisition in the Zebra Finch (Poephila guttata)
TLDR
Infusions of AP5 in the anterior forebrain did not impair young birds' ability to discriminate zebra finch from canary song, consistent with the hypothesis that NMDA receptor activation in the posterior forebrain is necessary for the memorization of song material during avian vocal learning.
View on Elsevier
An introduction to birdsong and the avian song system.
TLDR
Song behavior and its neural control is invited as a model for identifying neural mechanisms that view progress in their area of study and, more underlie biologically relevant behavior: important, to identify critical directions for future research.
View on PubMed
Projection neurons within a vocal motor pathway are born during song learning in zebra finches
TLDR
It is reported here that in young male zebra finches many of the new neurons incorporated into the HVc innervate the robust nucleus of the archistriatum (RA) which projects to motor neurons controlling the vocal musculature.
View on Nature
Neuron loss and addition in developing zebra finch song nuclei are independent of auditory experience during song learning.
TLDR
It is concluded that while the addition and loss of neurons in the developing song system may provide plasticity essential for song learning, these changes do not reflect learning.
View on PubMed
Androgens prevent normally occurring cell death in a sexually dimorphic spinal nucleus.
TLDR
The results suggest that steroid hormones determine sex differences in neuron number by regulating normally occurring cell death and that the timing of this cell death may therefore define critical periods for steroid effects on neuron number.
View on PubMed
Ascending projections to the inferior colliculus following unilateral cochlear ablation in the neonatal gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus
TLDR
The data suggest that the normal pattern of innervation of the IC results, in part, from interactions among afferent projections, and that unilat‐eral cochlear ablation in neonatal gerbils results in an increase in the magnitude of ipsilateral projections and a decrease inThe magnitude of contralateral projections from CN on the unoperated side to the inferior colliculi.
View on Wiley
Ascending auditory projections to the inferior colliculus in the adult gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus
TLDR
Ascending auditory projections to the inferiorcolliculus of the adult gerbil were studied using the retrograde transport of horseradish perpxi‐dase to indicate that afferent projections from most brainstem auditory nuclei are maintained in gerbils.
View on Wiley
Individual variation in neuron number predicts differences in the propensity for avian vocal imitation.
TLDR
It is found that individual differences in HVc volume and neuron number correlated positively with differences in the number of tutor syllables accurately copied, and it is possible that naturally occurring variation in neuron number constrains how much song material can be copied or reproduced.
View on PubMed
...
...
By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Dataset License