Many psychiatric disorders, despite their specific characteristics, share deficits in the
cognitive domain including executive functions, emotional control and memory. However …

Long-term plastic changes in the brain, including those supporting memory formation, are
assumed to depend on permanent functional alterations in neuronal cells that require …

Neurons compute in part by integrating, on a time scale of milliseconds, many synaptic
inputs and generating a digital output—the “action potential” of classic electrophysiology …

Male zebra finches display two song behaviors: directed and undirected singing. The two
differ little in the vocalizations produced but greatly in how song is delivered." Directed" song …

Songbirds are one of the best-studied examples of vocal learners. Learning of both human
speech and birdsong depends on hearing. Once learned, adult song in many species …

Social cues modulate the performance of communicative behaviors in a range of species,
including humans, and such changes can make the communication signal more salient. In …

Songbirds (Oscines) learn their songs from a tutor. It is not known where in the brain the
memories of these learned sounds are stored. Recent evidence suggests that song …

Early 20th‐century comparative anatomists regarded the avian telencephalon as largely
consisting of a hypertrophied basal ganglia, with thalamotelencephalic circuitry thus being …

New neurons are incorporated into the high vocal center (HVC), a nucleus of the adult
canary (Serinus canaria) brain that plays a critical role in the acquisition and production of …

The use of inducible transcription factors for mapping neural activity is now a common
procedure. We have previously developed a double-labelling technique that allows …