A Stable Neural Code for Birdsong

Ruidong Chen; Tejapratap Bollu; Jesse H Goldberg

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.017

A Stable Neural Code for Birdsong

Neuron. 2018 Jun 27;98(6):1057-1059. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.017.

Authors

Ruidong Chen¹, Tejapratap Bollu¹, Jesse H Goldberg²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, W121 Corson Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
² Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, W121 Corson Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Electronic address: jesse.goldberg@cornell.edu.

PMID: 29953865
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.06.017

Abstract

Proteins, synapses, and neural connections are in constant flux, yet motor behaviors somehow remain stable. In this issue of Neuron, Katlowitz et al. (2018) show that temporally precise neural activity driving birdsong production is stable for weeks.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Neurons
Synapses*
Vocalization, Animal*

Grants and funding

R01 NS094667/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States