In addition to their well-known role in skeletal movements, the basal ganglia control
saccadic eye movements (saccades) by means of their connection to the superior colliculus …

A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

Based on a wide variety of data, it is now clear that birds and teleost (bony) fish possess a
core “social behavior network” within the basal forebrain and midbrain that is homologous to …

Distinct domains of the prefrontal cortex in primates have a set of connections suggesting
that they have different roles in cognition, memory, and emotion. Caudal lateral prefrontal …

Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three
distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and cetaceans) and three distantly …

The persistence of play after decortication points to a subcortical mechanism of play control.
We found that global blockade of the rat periaqueductal gray with either muscimol or …

The review describes a model of vocal control, based mainly on research in the squirrel
monkey, which consists of two hierarchically organized pathways. One runs from the anterior …

This chapter reviews theoretical models and empirical evidence on the effects of emotion on
vocalization, in particular on human speech. Of all expressive manifestations of emotional …

Vocalizations are fundamental to mammalian communication, but the underlying neural
circuits await detailed characterization. Here, we used an intersectional genetic method to …

Cholinergic inputs to the auditory cortex from the basal forebrain (BF) are important to
auditory processing and plasticity, but little is known about the organization of these …