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Auditory Responses in Avian Vocal Motor Neurons: A Motor Theory for Song Perception in Birds
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The hypoglossal motor neurons that innervate the vocal organ of the male zebra finch show a selective, long-latency response to sound, and these neurons may be perceived as members of a set of vocal gestures and thus distinct from other environmental sounds.Abstract:
The hypoglossal motor neurons that innervate the vocal organ (syrinx) of the male zebra finch show a selective, long-latency (50-millisecond) response to sound. This response is eliminated by lesions to forebrain song-control nuclei. Different song syllables elicit a response from different syringeal motor neurons. Conspecific vocalizations may therefore be perceived as members of a set of vocal gestures and thus distinct from other environmental sounds. This hypothesis is an avian parallel to the motor theory of speech perception in humans.read more
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The motor theory of speech perception reviewed.
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TL;DR: Central nervous pathways controlling bird son in the canary are traced using a combination of behavioral and anatomical techniques and direct connections were found onto the cells of the motor nucleus innervating the syrinx, the organ of song production.
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Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain
TL;DR: In canaries and zebra finches, three vocal control areas in the brain are strikingly larger in males than in females, believed to be the first report of such gross sexual dimorphism in a vertebrate brain.
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Forebrain lesions disrupt development but not maintenance of song in passerine birds
TL;DR: Lesions in the magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum of passerine birds disrupted song development in juvenile male zebra finches but did not affect maintenance of stable song patterns by adult birds.
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Brain organization for language from the perspective of electrical stimulation mapping
TL;DR: A model for the organization of language in the adult humans brain is derived from electrical stimulation mapping of several language-related functions: naming, reading, short-term verbal memory, mimicry of orofacial movements, and phoneme identification during neurosurgical operations under local anesthesia as mentioned in this paper.