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Samuel J. Sober
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 48
Citations - 2177
Samuel J. Sober is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vocal learning & Auditory feedback. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1832 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel J. Sober include University of California, San Francisco & University of Southern California.
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Flexible strategies for sensory integration during motor planning
Samuel J. Sober,Philip N. Sabes +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the relative weighting of vision and proprioception depends both on the sensory modality of the target and on the information content of the visual feedback, and that these factors affect the two stages of planning independently.
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Multisensory Integration during Motor Planning
Samuel J. Sober,Philip N. Sabes +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that the position estimate used for movement vector planning relies mostly on visual input, whereas the estimate used to compute the joint-based motor command relies more on proprioceptive signals.
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Central Contributions to Acoustic Variation in Birdsong
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured whether neural activity covaried with syllable structure across multiple renditions of individual syllables and found that variations in premotor activity were significantly correlated with variations in the acoustic features (pitch, amplitude, and spectral entropy) of syllables in approximately a quarter of all cases.
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Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction.
TL;DR: It is found that, similar to human speech, adult birdsong is maintained by error correction, and this work suggests that lifelong error correction is a general principle of learned vocal behavior.
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Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals
Coen P. H. Elemans,Coen P. H. Elemans,Jeppe Have Rasmussen,Christian T. Herbst,Daniel Normen Düring,Sue Anne Zollinger,Henrik Brumm,Kyle H. Srivastava,Kyle H. Srivastava,Niels Svane,Ming Ding,Ole Næsbye Larsen,Samuel J. Sober,Jan G. Švec +13 more
TL;DR: An ex vivo preparation of the avian vocal organ is introduced that allows simultaneous high-speed imaging, muscle stimulation and kinematic and acoustic analyses to reveal the mechanisms of vocal production in birds across a wide range of taxa.