Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

The paper identifies a social-vocal brain network in marmoset monkeys that distinguishes social contexts and modulates vocalizations.

This paper introduces DAS, a deep learning method for annotating acoustic signals across species, demonstrating accuracy, robustness, and speed.

This study investigates the role of thyroid hormones in seasonal neuroplasticity in European starlings by analyzing gene expression and neurobehavioral effects of hypothyroidism.

The paper investigates neuronal encoding of vocal signals in zebra finches, finding distinct timescales for detecting variations and tolerating structural differences in vocal signals.

This study examines oxytocin receptor expression in zebra finch brains during vocal development and finds it persists from post-hatch day 5 to adulthood.

The paper uses local field potentials in zebra finches to decode vocal sequence elements and shows similarities to human motor areas.

This paper identifies a midbrain cell group (A11) in zebra finches that coordinates learned songs with innate courtship behaviors through neural connections to HVC and brainstem regions.

This study investigates the role of perineuronal nets in HVC in adult male canaries during song modification, finding limited effects on song structure and suggesting potential roles in repertoire stability.

This study shows that dopamine in the auditory cortex of zebra finches influences song preferences by altering incentive salience.

The paper investigates composite receptive fields in songbird auditory forebrain neurons, finding distributed and redundant representations of vocal signals across small neuron populations.

This study shows that cGKII knockout mice exhibit altered ultrasonic vocalizations and hypothalamic neuron activation, suggesting they model speech impairment in human 4q21 microdeletion syndrome.

The paper shows that zebra finches have high motor control resolution in vocal muscles, enabling precise control of birdsong through small motor unit sizes and low muscle stress.

This study shows that dopamine D1 receptor activation modulates neuroplasticity in the songbird auditory pallium by altering neuronal firing and plasticity gene induction.

This study investigates how arousal affects auditory responses in Bengalese finches using gene expression, finding that low-arousal states show less auditory gating and potential differences from zebra finches.

The paper examines sex-specific gene expression in the HVC of songbirds, finding that sex and hormone levels significantly influence transcriptomes, with differences observed between natural and testosterone-induced singing.

This study shows that Bengalese finches can learn to modify syllable sequencing based on visual cues, demonstrating a form of contextual control similar to human speech.

The paper identifies two neuronal populations in zebra finch pallium with physiological and computational similarities to mammalian excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

This study shows FoxP2 in the basal ganglia is essential for fluent birdsong initiation, termination, and syllable sequencing, with disruptions affecting dopamine receptor balance and vocal-motor sequencing.

The paper identifies gene expression signatures in the brain associated with courtship humming in midshipman fish, highlighting circadian-related genes and other molecular pathways involved in vocal behavior.

The paper shows that movement-related neuronal activity in the ventral pallidum and dopaminergic midbrain of singing birds is gated by behavioral state, switching from movement-locked to song-syllable-locked during singing.

This study investigates whether ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in rats serve an auditory communication purpose by examining their impact on social and non-social behaviors in a novel environment.

The paper was withdrawn due to inability to reproduce results regarding zinc and SLC39all's role in song tempo variation.

This study shows that acoustic changes in zebra finch vocal development are due to motor control changes, not syringeal structure maturation.

The paper models how new neurons form a local neural circuit for precise timing in songbird HVC through self-organized recruitment and synaptic plasticity.

This study shows that echolocation in bats reverses information flow in the fronto-auditory cortical network, with bottom-up transfer during echolocation and top-down during communication.

This study shows that FoxP1 selectively impairs social learning of vocalizations but not imitation in zebra finches, highlighting a specific vulnerability in cultural transmission.

This study examines the effects of estrogen on vocal learning in zebra finches, finding that estrogen suppression in males impairs song learning but not nucleus size or most transcriptome features, while estrogen treatment in females preserves song system function.

The paper identifies two forebrain inhibitory neuron populations that trigger or suppress vocalization by modulating PAG-USV neurons through distinct synaptic mechanisms.

This study investigates how marmosets solve the Cocktail Party Problem by analyzing their vocal behavior in response to acoustic scene manipulations.

The paper introduces a viral tool for fast retrograde labeling of projection neurons in songbirds and mice, enabling detailed analysis of vocal learning circuits.