Seasonal regeneration of a forebrain circuit critical for vocal communication
Professor David Perkel
Biology and Otolaryngology
University of Washington
Seattle, USA
Title: Seasonal regeneration of a forebrain circuit critical for vocal communication
Abstract: Songbirds have forebrain circuits dedicated to learning and producing courtship songs. In many seasonal species, these circuits grow in the early spring and regress in the fall. I will present work on the mechanisms underlying this dramatic form of adult forebrain plasticity in white-crowned sparrows. These changes include neurogenesis, structural plasticity and altered electrical properties of neurons in a circuit critical for in song production.
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