Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly
detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and behavioral kinematics …

One major feature of the remarkable vocal repertoires of birds is the range of fundamental
frequencies across species, but also within individual species. This review discusses four …

Songbirds learn and produce complex sequences of vocal gestures. Adult birdsong requires
premotor nucleus HVC, in which projection neurons (PNs) burst sparsely at stereotyped …

We reconstruct the physiological parameters that control an avian vocal organ during
birdsong production using recorded song. The procedure involves fitting the time dependent …

Birdsong is a complex vocal behavior, which emerges out of the interaction between a
nervous system and a highly nonlinear vocal device, the syrinx. In this work we discuss how …

Vocal production in songbirds requires the control of the respiratory system, the syrinx as
sound source and the vocal tract as acoustic filter. Vocal tract movements consist of beak …

Highly coordinated learned behaviors are key to understanding neural processes
integrating the body and the environment. Birdsong production is a widely studied example …

The way in which information about behavior is represented at different levels of the motor
pathway, remains among the fundamental unresolved problems of motor coding and …

During sleep, sporadically, it is possible to find neural patterns of activity in areas of the
avian brain that are activated during the generation of the song. It has recently been found …

Because of the parallels found with human language production and acquisition, birdsong is
an ideal animal model to study general mechanisms underlying complex, learned motor …