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Auditory Memories and Feedback Processing for Vocal Learning

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Vocal learning is an ability shared by humans and songbirds, among few others species. The processes involved in acquiring speech or song share similarities based on generating an internal representation of auditory cues. Both innate mechanisms and environmental inputs can influence song learning and speech acquisition. In songbirds a specific neural network for vocal motor control, perception and song learning has been described, which makes this system suitable for studying the formation and representations of song memories. These representations interact with auditory feedback during vocal acquisition and maintenance of adult vocalizations. This mechanism for processing auditory feedback has both online and offline components. In this chapter we attempt to provide a thematic organization identifying limitations of our knowledge and posing questions for future studies.

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Abbreviations

AFP:

anterior forebrain pathway

BOS:

bird’s own song

CLM:

caudolateral mesopallium

CM:

caudal mesopallium

CMM:

caudomedial mesopallium

IEG:

immediate early gene

IMM:

intermediate and medial mesopallium

LMAN:

lateral magnocellular nucleus of the anterior nidopallium

MLd:

dorsal lateral nucleus of the mesencephalon

NCM:

caudomedial nidopallium

NIf:

nucleus interfacialis of the nidopallium

nXIIts:

tracheosyringeal part of the hypoglossal nucleus

Ov:

nucleus ovoidalis

PAm:

parambigualis nucleus

RA:

robust nucleus of the arcopallium

RAm:

retroambigualis nucleus

Uva:

nucleus uvaeformis

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This work was supported in part by NIH grants MH59831 and DC007206 to DM and Human Frontiers Science Program fellowship LT000735 to AA. We are grateful for comments on the manuscript provided by Patrice Adret and Morgan Wirthlin.

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Amador, A., Margoliash, D. (2011). Auditory Memories and Feedback Processing for Vocal Learning. In: Winer, J., Schreiner, C. (eds) The Auditory Cortex. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0074-6_26

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