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List of works by Michael S Brainard

Acetylcholine acts on songbird premotor circuitry to invigorate vocal output

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction.

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An Adapting Auditory-motor Feedback Loop Can Contribute to Generating Vocal Repetition

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An avian basal ganglia-forebrain circuit contributes differentially to syllable versus sequence variability of adult Bengalese finch song.

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Auditory feedback in learning and maintenance of vocal behaviour.

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Auditory-induced neural dynamics in sensory-motor circuitry predict learned temporal and sequential statistics of birdsong

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Central contributions to acoustic variation in birdsong

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Contributions of an avian basal ganglia-forebrain circuit to real-time modulation of song

scientific article (publication date: 10 February 2005)

Contributions of the anterior forebrain pathway to vocal plasticity.

scientific article published in June 2004

Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit

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Creating a Unified Representation of Visual and Auditory Space in the Brain

scientific article published on January 1, 1995

Discrete Circuits Support Generalized versus Context-Specific Vocal Learning in the Songbird

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Editorial overview: communication and language: animal communication and human language

scientific article published on 02 September 2014

Experience-dependent plasticity in the inferior colliculus: a site for visual calibration of the neural representation of auditory space in the barn owl.

scientific article published in November 1993

Genetic variation interacts with experience to determine interindividual differences in learned song

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Images in neuroscience. Brain development, V: Experience affects brain development.

scientific article published in August 1998

Learning is enhanced by tailoring instruction to individual genetic differences

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Learning the microstructure of successful behavior

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Lesions of an avian basal ganglia circuit prevent context-dependent changes to song variability

scientific article (publication date: September 2006)

Linked control of syllable sequence and phonology in birdsong.

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Mechanisms and time course of vocal learning and consolidation in the adult songbird

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Neural derivation of sound source location: resolution of spatial ambiguities in binaural cues.

scientific article published in February 1992

Neural encoding and integration of learned probabilistic sequences in avian sensory-motor circuitry

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Neural substrates of sound localization.

scientific article published on August 1994

Online contributions of auditory feedback to neural activity in avian song control circuitry.

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Postlearning consolidation of birdsong: stabilizing effects of age and anterior forebrain lesions.

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Real-time contributions of auditory feedback to avian vocal motor control.

scientific article published in September 2006

Role of the site of synaptic competition and the balance of learning forces for Hebbian encoding of probabilistic Markov sequences

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Sensitive periods for visual calibration of the auditory space map in the barn owl optic tectum.

scientific article published in May 1998

Shared mechanisms of auditory and non-auditory vocal learning in the songbird brain

scientific article published in 2022

Single-channel analysis of four distinct classes of potassium channels in Drosophila muscle

scientific article published in December 1988

Social context rapidly modulates the influence of auditory feedback on avian vocal motor control

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Timing during transitions in Bengalese finch song: implications for motor sequencing.

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Translating birdsong: songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research

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Variability of inter-syllable gaps challenges the branched-chain model of sequence production in Bengalese finches.

scientific article published on 16 July 2012

Variable sequencing is actively maintained in a well learned motor skill

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Vocal learning promotes patterned inhibitory connectivity.

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What songbirds teach us about learning

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2002)