A common feature in many neuroscience datasets is the presence of hierarchical data
structures, most commonly recording the activity of multiple neurons in multiple animals …

Sensorimotor integration is the process through which the nervous system creates a link
between motor commands and associated sensory feedback. This process allows for the …

Songbirds provide a powerful animal model for investigating how the brain uses sensory
feedback to correct behavioral errors. Here, we review a recent study in which we used …

Studies of motor control have almost universally examined firing rates to investigate how the
brain shapes behavior. In principle, however, neurons could encode information through the …

Songbirds have become the most prominent animal model to reveal the neural mechanisms
underlying vocal learning. Similar to other forms of sensorimotor learning, vocal learning in …

The relationship between muscle activity and behavioral output determines how the brain
controls and modifies complex skills. In vocal control, ensembles of muscles are used to …

Motor skills depend on the reuse of individual gestures in multiple sequential contexts (eg, a
single phoneme in different words). Yet optimal performance requires that a given gesture …

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

The brain uses sensory feedback to correct errors in behavior. Songbirds and humans
acquire vocal behaviors by imitating the sounds produced by adults and rely on auditory …

Purpose Words, syllables, and phonemes have each been regarded as basic encoding
units of speech production in various psycholinguistic models. The present article …