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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages 2157-2166Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01001.2004
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01-DC-6102-2] Funding Source: Medline
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Sensorimotor integration in the avian song system is crucial for both learning and maintenance of song, a vocal motor behavior. Although a number of Song system areas demonstrate both sensory and motor characteristics. their exact roles ill auditory and premotor processing are unclear. In particular, it is unknown whether input from the forebrain nucleus interface of the nidopallium (NIf), which exhibits both sensory and premotor activity, is necessary for both auditory and premotor processing in its target, HVC. Here we show that bilateral NIf lesions result ill long-term loss of HVC auditory activity but do not impair song production. NIf is thus a major source of auditory input to HVC, but an intact NIf is not necessary for motor output in adult zebra finches.
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