期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 67, 期 13, 页码 1699-1720出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20520
关键词
adult neurogenesis; motor learning; aging; birdsong; behavior
资金
- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC004724-07, DC004724] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS29843] Funding Source: Medline
Adult neurogenesis is often correlated with learning new tasks, suggesting that a function of incorporating new neurons is to permit new memory formation. However, in the zebra finch, neurons are added to the song motor pathway throughout life, long after the initial song motor pattern is acquired by about 3 months of age. To explore this paradox, we examined the relationship between adult song structure and neuron addition using sensitive measures of song acoustic structure. We report that between 4 and 15 months of age there was an increase in the stereotypy of fine-grained spectral and temporal features of syllable acoustic structure. These results indicate that the zebra finch continues to refine motor output, perhaps by practice, over a protracted period beyond the time when song is first learned. Over the same age range, there was a decrease in the addition of new neurons to HVC, a region necessary for song production, but not to Area X or the hippocampus, regions not essential for singing. We propose that age-related changes in the stereotypy of syllable acoustic structure and HVC neuron addition are functionally related.
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