An avian cortical circuit for chunking tutor song syllables into simple vocal-motor units

Young songbirds learn to imitate their parents’ songs. Here, the authors find that, in baby birds, neurons in a brain region at the interface of auditory and motor circuits signal the onsets of song syllables during both tutoring and babbling, suggesting a specific neural mechanism for vocal imitati...

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Main Authors: Emily L. Mackevicius, Michael T. L. Happ, Michale S. Fee
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/9f1fb222cc0a4d649894306891d991d4
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