Publications

Cellular transcriptomics reveals evolutionary identities of songbird vocal circuits.

Science

Colquitt BM, Merullo DP, Konopka G, Roberts TF, Brainard MS


Learning is enhanced by tailoring instruction to individual genetic differences.

eLife

Mets DG, Brainard MS


The Avian Basal Ganglia Are a Source of Rapid Behavioral Variation That Enables Vocal Motor Exploration.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Kojima S, Kao MH, Doupe AJ, Brainard MS


An automated approach to the quantitation of vocalizations and vocal learning in the songbird.

PLoS computational biology

Mets DG, Brainard MS


Zebra finches are sensitive to combinations of temporally distributed features in a model of word recognition.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Knowles JM, Doupe AJ, Brainard MS


Draft genome assembly of the Bengalese finch, Lonchura striata domestica, a model for motor skill variability and learning.

GigaScience

Colquitt BM, Mets DG, Brainard MS


Genetic variation interacts with experience to determine interindividual differences in learned song.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Mets DG, Brainard MS


Vocal learning promotes patterned inhibitory connectivity.

Nature communications

Miller MN, Cheung CYJ, Brainard MS


Discrete Circuits Support Generalized versus Context-Specific Vocal Learning in the Songbird.

Neuron

Tian LY, Brainard MS


Timing during transitions in Bengalese finch song: implications for motor sequencing.

Journal of neurophysiology

Troyer TW, Brainard MS, Bouchard KE


Auditory-induced neural dynamics in sensory-motor circuitry predict learned temporal and sequential statistics of birdsong.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Bouchard KE, Brainard MS


An Adapting Auditory-motor Feedback Loop Can Contribute to Generating Vocal Repetition.

PLoS computational biology

Wittenbach JD, Bouchard KE, Brainard MS, Jin DZ


Role of the site of synaptic competition and the balance of learning forces for Hebbian encoding of probabilistic Markov sequences.

Frontiers in computational neuroscience

Bouchard KE, Ganguli S, Brainard MS


Editorial overview: communication and language: animal communication and human language.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Brainard MS, Fitch WT


Neural encoding and integration of learned probabilistic sequences in avian sensory-motor circuitry.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Bouchard KE, Brainard MS


Translating birdsong: songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research.

Annual review of neuroscience

Brainard MS, Doupe AJ


Vocal learning is constrained by the statistics of sensorimotor experience.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Sober SJ, Brainard MS


Variable sequencing is actively maintained in a well learned motor skill.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Warren TL, Charlesworth JD, Tumer EC, Brainard MS


Covert skill learning in a cortical-basal ganglia circuit.

Nature

Charlesworth JD, Warren TL, Brainard MS


Mechanisms and time course of vocal learning and consolidation in the adult songbird.

Journal of neurophysiology

Warren TL, Tumer EC, Charlesworth JD, Brainard MS


Learning the microstructure of successful behavior.

Nature neuroscience

Charlesworth JD, Tumer EC, Warren TL, Brainard MS


Linked control of syllable sequence and phonology in birdsong.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Wohlgemuth MJ, Sober SJ, Brainard MS


Social context rapidly modulates the influence of auditory feedback on avian vocal motor control.

Journal of neurophysiology

Sakata JT, Brainard MS


Adult birdsong is actively maintained by error correction.

Nature neuroscience

Sober SJ, Brainard MS


An avian basal ganglia-forebrain circuit contributes differentially to syllable versus sequence variability of adult Bengalese finch song.

Journal of neurophysiology

Hampton CM, Sakata JT, Brainard MS


Online contributions of auditory feedback to neural activity in avian song control circuitry.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Sakata JT, Brainard MS


Central contributions to acoustic variation in birdsong.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Sober SJ, Wohlgemuth MJ, Brainard MS


Social modulation of sequence and syllable variability in adult birdsong.

Journal of neurophysiology

Sakata JT, Hampton CM, Brainard MS


Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of 'crystallized' adult birdsong.

Nature

Tumer EC, Brainard MS


Real-time contributions of auditory feedback to avian vocal motor control.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Sakata JT, Brainard MS


Lesions of an avian basal ganglia circuit prevent context-dependent changes to song variability.

Journal of neurophysiology

Kao MH, Brainard MS


Contributions of an avian basal ganglia-forebrain circuit to real-time modulation of song.

Nature

Kao MH, Doupe AJ, Brainard MS


Contributions of the anterior forebrain pathway to vocal plasticity.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Brainard MS


What songbirds teach us about learning.

Nature

Brainard MS, Doupe AJ


Postlearning consolidation of birdsong: stabilizing effects of age and anterior forebrain lesions.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Brainard MS, Doupe AJ


Song selectivity and sensorimotor signals in vocal learning and production.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Solis MM, Brainard MS, Hessler NA, Doupe AJ


Auditory feedback in learning and maintenance of vocal behaviour.

Nature reviews. Neuroscience

Brainard MS, Doupe AJ


Interruption of a basal ganglia-forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations.

Nature

Brainard MS, Doupe AJ


Images in neuroscience. Brain development, V: Experience affects brain development.

The American journal of psychiatry

Brainard MS, Knudsen EI


Sensitive periods for visual calibration of the auditory space map in the barn owl optic tectum.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Brainard MS, Knudsen EI


Newly learned auditory responses mediated by NMDA receptors in the owl inferior colliculus.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Feldman DE, Brainard MS, Knudsen EI


Dynamics of visually guided auditory plasticity in the optic tectum of the barn owl.

Journal of neurophysiology

Brainard MS, Knudsen EI


Creating a unified representation of visual and auditory space in the brain.

Annual review of neuroscience

Knudsen EI, Brainard MS


Neural substrates of sound localization.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Brainard MS


Experience-dependent plasticity in the inferior colliculus: a site for visual calibration of the neural representation of auditory space in the barn owl.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Brainard MS, Knudsen EI


Neural derivation of sound source location: resolution of spatial ambiguities in binaural cues.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Brainard MS, Knudsen EI, Esterly SD


Visual instruction of the neural map of auditory space in the developing optic tectum.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Knudsen EI, Brainard MS


Single-channel analysis of four distinct classes of potassium channels in Drosophila muscle.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Zagotta WN, Brainard MS, Aldrich RW