Sequenced behaviours, including locomotion, reaching and vocalization, are patterned
differently in different contexts, enabling animals to adjust to their environments. How …

Coordinated skills such as speech or dance involve sequences of actions that follow
syntactic rules in which transitions between elements depend on the identities and order of …

The generation of acoustic communication signals is widespread across the animal
kingdom,, and males of many species, including Drosophilidae, produce patterned courtship …

While motor cortical circuits contain information related to specific movement parameters,
long-range inputs also have a critical role in action execution,. Thalamic projections can …

It is unclear where in the nervous system evolutionary changes tend to occur. To localize the
source of neural evolution that has generated divergent behaviors, we developed a new …

Musical and athletic skills are learned and maintained through intensive practice to enable
precise and reliable performance for an audience. Consequently, understanding such …

Deciphering how brains generate behavior depends critically on an accurate description of
behavior. If distinct behaviors are lumped together, separate modes of brain activity can be …

Many motor control systems generate multiple movements using a common set of muscles.
How are premotor circuits able to flexibly generate diverse movement patterns? Here, we …

The neural basis for behavioural evolution is poorly understood. Functional comparisons of
homologous neurons may reveal how neural circuitry contributes to behavioural evolution …

Brain mechanisms for communication must establish a correspondence between sensory
and motor codes used to represent the signal. One idea is that this correspondence is …