Topic: temporal control

While temporal control is crucial for the generation of a wide range of sensorimotor tasks, its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Like human speech, birdsong relies on a tight muscle coordination, and songbirds have proved to be an outstanding model to study the sequential pattern of neuronal activity encoding action timing. In male 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