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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11714-8
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- Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within the frame-work of the Excellence Initiative [EXC 307]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [HA5400/3-1]
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Marmosets have attracted significant interest in the life sciences. Similarities with human brain anatomy and physiology, such as the granular frontal cortex, as well as the development of transgenic lines and potential for transferring rodent neuroscientific techniques to small primates make them a promising neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric model system. However, whether marmosets can exhibit complex motor tasks in highly controlled experimental designs-one of the prerequisites for investigating higher-order control mechanisms underlying cognitive motor behavior-has not been demonstrated. We show that marmosets can be trained to perform vocal behavior in response to arbitrary visual cues in controlled operant conditioning tasks. Our results emphasize the marmoset as a suitable model to study complex motor behavior and the evolution of cognitive control underlying speech.
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