Roberts Lab

Holistic motor control of zebra finch song syllable sequences Nature - A cortical premotor network in HVC, once initiated, can sustain and regulate the sequential production of zebra finch song syllables without major extrinsic inputs.

check out the new paper from the lab published yesterday! rdcu.be/e1bBO

Synaptic connectivity of sensorimotor circuits for vocal imitation in the songbird Optogenetic circuit mapping identifies the synaptic connectivity of input/output pathways in the songbird premotor region HVC, providing a basis for understanding information flow through brain circui...

In @elife.bsky.social: Synaptic connectivity of sensorimotor circuits for vocal imitation in the songbird doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

If your perception is that all interactions are transactional and that there is no such thing as sincerity of curiosity, or a desire to discover, then you will never value science.

No matter how many economic arguments there are for funding it.

Because you don’t understand the fundamental premise.

this is huge. fingers crossed it happens soon. thanks for posting this!

I think about this story a lot in the context of neuroscience. In the last decade, our ability to record and manipulate ever larger populations of neurons has forced us to confront the fact that many of our intuitions about the brain do not carry over to strongly recurrent systems. 7/n