Although the brain relies on auditory information to calibrate vocal behavior, the neural
substrates of vocal learning remain unclear. Here we demonstrate that lesions of the …

Like humans, songbirds are one of the few animal groups that learn vocalization. Vocal
learning requires coordination of auditory input and vocal output using auditory feedback to …

Singing, music performance, and speech rely on the retrieval of complex sounds, which are
generated by the corresponding actions and are organized into sequences. It is crucial in …

Little is known about the impact of attention during motor adaptation tasks on how
movements adapted in one context generalize to another. We investigated this by …

Monitoring voice pitch is a fine-tuned process in daily conversations as conveying accurately
the linguistic and affective cues in a given utterance depends on the precise control of …

Dopamine is hypothesized to convey error information in reinforcement learning tasks with
explicit appetitive or aversive cues. However, during motor skill learning feedback signals …

Understanding the factors that predict and guide variation in behavioral change can lend
insight into mechanisms of motor plasticity and individual differences in behavior. The …

Traditional theories of sensorimotor learning posit that animals use sensory error signals to
find the optimal motor command in the face of Gaussian sensory and motor noise. However …

Predicting the nature of behavioral plasticity can provide insight into mechanisms of
behavioral expression and control. Songbirds like the zebra finch rely on vocal signals for …

Children maintain fluent speech despite dramatic changes to their articulators during
development. Auditory feedback aids in the acquisition and maintenance of the …