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Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation
Behaviors emerge via a combination of experience and innate predispositions. As the brain matures, it undergoes major changes in cellular, network, and functional properties that can be due to sensory experience as well as developmental processes. In normal birdsong learning, neural sequences emerge...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10229124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77262 |
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author | Mackevicius, Emily L Gu, Shijie Denisenko, Natalia I Fee, Michale S |
author_facet | Mackevicius, Emily L Gu, Shijie Denisenko, Natalia I Fee, Michale S |
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description | Behaviors emerge via a combination of experience and innate predispositions. As the brain matures, it undergoes major changes in cellular, network, and functional properties that can be due to sensory experience as well as developmental processes. In normal birdsong learning, neural sequences emerge to control song syllables learned from a tutor. Here, we disambiguate the role of tutor experience and development in neural sequence formation by delaying exposure to a tutor. Using functional calcium imaging, we observe neural sequences in the absence of tutoring, demonstrating that tutor experience is not necessary for the formation of sequences. However, after exposure to a tutor, pre-existing sequences can become tightly associated with new song syllables. Since we delayed tutoring, only half our birds learned new syllables following tutor exposure. The birds that failed to learn were the birds in which pre-tutoring neural sequences were most ‘crystallized,’ that is, already tightly associated with their (untutored) song. |
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spelling | pubmed-102291242023-05-31 Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation Mackevicius, Emily L Gu, Shijie Denisenko, Natalia I Fee, Michale S eLife Neuroscience Behaviors emerge via a combination of experience and innate predispositions. As the brain matures, it undergoes major changes in cellular, network, and functional properties that can be due to sensory experience as well as developmental processes. In normal birdsong learning, neural sequences emerge to control song syllables learned from a tutor. Here, we disambiguate the role of tutor experience and development in neural sequence formation by delaying exposure to a tutor. Using functional calcium imaging, we observe neural sequences in the absence of tutoring, demonstrating that tutor experience is not necessary for the formation of sequences. However, after exposure to a tutor, pre-existing sequences can become tightly associated with new song syllables. Since we delayed tutoring, only half our birds learned new syllables following tutor exposure. The birds that failed to learn were the birds in which pre-tutoring neural sequences were most ‘crystallized,’ that is, already tightly associated with their (untutored) song. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10229124/ /pubmed/37252761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77262 Text en © 2023, Mackevicius et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Mackevicius, Emily L Gu, Shijie Denisenko, Natalia I Fee, Michale S Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title | Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title_full | Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title_fullStr | Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title_short | Self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
title_sort | self-organization of songbird neural sequences during social isolation |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10229124/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252761 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77262 |
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