TY - JOUR
T1 - A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations
AU - Hamaguchi, Kosuke
AU - Tanaka, Masashi
AU - Mooney, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the members of the Mooney laboratory for discussions regarding experimental design and data analysis; H. Greenside, K.A. Tschida, D.M. Schneider, and K. Franks for their valuable comments on the manuscript; and M. Booze for technical support and animal husbandry. K.H. was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers 15K18340 and 15K21715. R.M. was supported by NIH DC002524 and NS079929 and NSF IOS 1354962.
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/8/3
Y1 - 2016/8/3
N2 - How do forebrain and brainstem circuits interact to produce temporally precise and reproducible behaviors? Birdsong is an elaborate, temporally precise, and stereotyped vocal behavior controlled by a network of forebrain and brainstem nuclei. An influential idea is that song premotor neurons in a forebrain nucleus (HVC) form a synaptic chain that dictates song timing in a top-down manner. Here we combine physiological, dynamical, and computational methods to show that song timing is not generated solely by a mechanism localized to HVC but instead is the product of a distributed and recurrent synaptic network spanning the forebrain and brainstem, of which HVC is a component.
AB - How do forebrain and brainstem circuits interact to produce temporally precise and reproducible behaviors? Birdsong is an elaborate, temporally precise, and stereotyped vocal behavior controlled by a network of forebrain and brainstem nuclei. An influential idea is that song premotor neurons in a forebrain nucleus (HVC) form a synaptic chain that dictates song timing in a top-down manner. Here we combine physiological, dynamical, and computational methods to show that song timing is not generated solely by a mechanism localized to HVC but instead is the product of a distributed and recurrent synaptic network spanning the forebrain and brainstem, of which HVC is a component.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.019
DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.019
M3 - Article
C2 - 27397518
AN - SCOPUS:84991107476
VL - 91
SP - 680
EP - 693
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
SN - 0896-6273
IS - 3
ER -