Fluorescence imaging of large-scale neural ensemble dynamics

TH Kim, MJ Schnitzer - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent progress in fluorescence imaging allows neuroscientists to observe the dynamics of
thousands of individual neurons, identified genetically or by their connectivity, across …

Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization

AD Patel - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human capacity to synchronize movements to an auditory beat is central to musical
behaviour and to debates over the evolution of human musicality. Have humans evolved …

Efficient and accurate extraction of in vivo calcium signals from microendoscopic video data

P Zhou, SL Resendez, J Rodriguez-Romaguera… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In vivo calcium imaging through microendoscopic lenses enables imaging of previously
inaccessible neuronal populations deep within the brains of freely moving animals …

Cellular transcriptomics reveals evolutionary identities of songbird vocal circuits

BM Colquitt, DP Merullo, G Konopka, TF Roberts… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The mammalian neocortex, with its distinctive six-layered structure, is
thought to enable advanced cognitive functions not seen in other animals. Yet birds, which …

Thalamus drives vocal onsets in the zebra finch courtship song

FW Moll, D Kranz, A Corredera Asensio, M Elmaleh… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

A new perspective on predictive motor signaling

H Straka, J Simmers, BP Chagnaud - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Adaptive behavior relies on complex neural processing in multiple interacting networks of
both motor and sensory systems. One such interaction employs intrinsic neuronal signals, so …

MIN1PIPE: a miniscope 1-photon-based calcium imaging signal extraction pipeline

J Lu, C Li, J Singh-Alvarado, ZC Zhou, F Fröhlich… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
In vivo calcium imaging using a 1-photon-based miniscope and a microendoscopic lens
enables studies of neural activities in freely behaving animals. However, the high and …

A mesocortical dopamine circuit enables the cultural transmission of vocal behaviour

M Tanaka, F Sun, Y Li, R Mooney - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The cultural transmission of behaviour depends on the ability of the pupil to identify and
emulate an appropriate tutor,,–. How the brain of the pupil detects a suitable tutor and …

An optical design enabling lightweight and large field-of-view head-mounted microscopes

JR Scherrer, GF Lynch, JJ Zhang, MS Fee - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Here we present a fluorescence microscope light path that enables imaging, during free
behavior, of thousands of neurons in mice and hundreds of neurons in juvenile songbirds …

Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds

AA Rouse, AD Patel, MH Kao - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Rhythm perception is fundamental to speech and music. Humans readily recognize a
rhythmic pattern, such as that of a familiar song, independently of the tempo at which it …