Significant instances in motor gestures of different songbird species

The nervous system representation of a motor program is an open problem for most behaviors. In birdsong production, it has been proposed that some special temporal instances, linked to significant aspects of the motor gestures used to generate the song, are preferentially represented in the cortex....

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Authors: Lassa Ortiz, Javier Nahuel, Herbert, Cecilia Thomsett, Mindlin, Bernardo Gabriel, Amador, Ana
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2019
Country:Argentina
Institution:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repository:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/147559
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/147559
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:BIRDSONG PRODUCTION
CORTICAL REPRESENTATION
MOTOR GESTURES
SONGBIRDS
SPARSE CODING
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Summary:The nervous system representation of a motor program is an open problem for most behaviors. In birdsong production, it has been proposed that some special temporal instances, linked to significant aspects of the motor gestures used to generate the song, are preferentially represented in the cortex. In this work, we compute these temporal instances for two species, and report which of them is better suited to test the proposed coding (as well as alternative models) against data.