The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity

AR Sobinov, SJ Bensmaia - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as grasping to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a computational neuroethology of vocal communication: from bioacoustics to neurophysiology, emerging tools and future directions

T Sainburg, TQ Gentner - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly
detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and behavioral kinematics …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and accurate annotation of acoustic signals with deep neural networks

E Steinfath, A Palacios-Muñoz, JR Rottschäfer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Acoustic signals serve communication within and across species throughout the animal
kingdom. Studying the genetics, evolution, and neurobiology of acoustic communication …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dimensional learned feature spaces quantify individual and group differences in vocal repertoires

J Goffinet, S Brudner, R Mooney, J Pearson - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Increases in the scale and complexity of behavioral data pose an increasing challenge for
data analysis. A common strategy involves replacing entire behaviors with small numbers of …

A practical guide for generating unsupervised, spectrogram‐based latent space representations of animal vocalizations

M Thomas, FH Jensen, B Averly… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background: The manual detection, analysis and classification of animal vocalizations in
acoustic recordings is laborious and requires expert knowledge. Hence, there is a need for …

Recent advances at the interface of neuroscience and artificial neural networks

Y Cohen, TA Engel, C Langdon… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Biological neural networks adapt and learn in diverse behavioral contexts. Artificial neural
networks (ANNs) have exploited biological properties to solve complex problems. However …

pykanto: A python library to accelerate research on wild bird song

N Merino Recalde - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Studying the vocalisations of wild animals can be a challenge due to the limitations of
traditional computational methods, which often are time‐consuming and lack reproducibility …

Predictability of power grid frequency

J Kruse, B Schäfer, D Witthaut - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The power grid frequency is the central observable in power system control, as it measures
the balance of electrical supply and demand. A reliable frequency forecast can facilitate …

[PDF][PDF] Detection and classification methods for animal sounds

JN Oswald, C Erbe, WL Gannon… - Exploring animal …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Researchers have a natural tendency to classify biological systems into categories. For
example, organisms can be classified based on biome, ecosystem, taxon, phylogeny, niche …