HVC

…in the canary premotor brain nucleus HVC show syllable-locked activity patterns which indicate their part in syllable-driving premotor '

…into the song premotor area, HVC, from the NCM neurons which were specifically activated by hearing TS and by using activity-dependent viral expression of EGFP (AA

…the zebra finch cortical nucleus HVC (used as a proper name), produce precisely timed, highly reliable and ultra-sparse neural sequen

…The premotor cortical region HVC (proper name) contains projection neurons that produce precisely timed, highly reliable and ultra-sparse spike burst sequences that underlie song dynamics. The origin of these bursts is debated. One model posits that bursts are gen

…zebra finches, the premotor nucleus HVC is responsible for the precise control of song tempo. Current computational models of HVC rely on synfire chains, a purely feedforward network model that can account for HVC sequential activity. Synfire chains are however

During conversations we rapidly switch between listening and speaking which often requires withholding or delaying our speech in order to hear others and avoid overlapping. This capacity for vocal turn-taking is exhibited by non-linguistic species as well, however the neural circuit mechanisms that enable us to regulate the precise timing of our vocalizations during interactions are unknown. We aim to identify the neural mechanisms underlying the coordination of vocal interactions. Therefore, we paired zebra finches with a vocal robot (1Hz call playback) and measured the bird’s call response t