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Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird

Selmaan N. Chettih et al.
Cell | March 29, 2024
The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory. Although hippocampal activity represents place and other behaviorally relevant variables, it is unclear how it encodes numerous memories of specific events in life. To...

Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation

Emily L Mackevicius et al.
eLife | May 30, 2023
Emily L. Mackevicius et al., using the Inscopix nVista tool, investigated whether the formation of sequences in the high vocal center (HVC) of songbirds depends on prior exposure to a tutor song. They found that even in...

Neural dynamics underlying birdsong practice and performance

Jonnathan Singh Alvarado et al.
Nature | October 20, 2021
Musical and athletic skills are learned and maintained through intensive practice to enable precise and reliable performance for an audience. Consequently, understanding such complex behaviours requires insight into how...

Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior

Vamsi K Daliparthi et al.
eLife | June 11, 2019
Precise neural sequences are associated with the production of well-learned skilled behaviors. Yet, how neural sequences arise in the brain remains unclear. In songbirds, premotor projection neurons in the cortical song...

Unsupervised discovery of temporal sequences in high-dimensional datasets, with applications to neuroscience

Emily L Mackevicius et al.
eLife | February 5, 2019
Identifying low-dimensional features that describe large-scale neural recordings is a major challenge in neuroscience. Repeated temporal patterns (sequences) are thought to be a salient feature of neural dynamics, but...

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