The evolution and diversification of sleep

NC Rattenborg, G Ungurean - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The evolutionary origins of sleep and its sub-states, rapid eye movement (REM) and non-
REM (NREM) sleep, found in mammals and birds, remain a mystery. Although the discovery …

Austral birds offer insightful complementary models in ecology and evolution

J Theuerkauf, CP Villavicencio, NM Adreani… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The Southern Hemisphere differs from the Northern Hemisphere in many aspects. However,
most ecological and evolutionary research is conducted in the Northern Hemisphere and its …

Importance of sleep for avian vocal communication

J Gaviraghi Mussoi, MC Stanley… - Biology …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sleep is one of the few truly ubiquitous animal behaviours, and though many animals spend
enormous periods of time asleep, we have only begun to understand the consequences of …

Song-like activation of syringeal and respiratory muscles during sleep in canaries

F Fainstein, F Goller, GB Mindlin - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2024 - Springer
Sleep replay activity involves the reactivation of brain structures with patterns similar to those
observed during waking behavior. In this study, we demonstrate that adult male canaries …

Synthesizing avian dreams

JF Döppler, M Atencio, A Amador… - … Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Mechanisms of memory consolidation during REM sleep: Replay of awake experience across different contexts

J Choi - 2023 - escholarship.mcgill.ca
Sleep is critical for memory consolidation and consists of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid
eye movement (REM) sleep cycles. During SWS, the neural activity patterns from awake …

[PDF][PDF] Biomecánica de vocalizaciones en aves suboscinas

JF Döppler - 2022 - bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar
Birds are an animal model widely studied in the field of vocal production. They have
generated great interest due to the similarities with the human case regarding their physical …