Paper in J Neurosci.

A Mechanism for Vocal-Respiratory Coupling in the Mammalian Parabrachial Nucleus

Our study indicate that GABA receptor-mediated inhibition in the lateral parabrachial nucleus modulates the time course of respiratory phase switching during vocalizing, and is needed for proper coordination of calling and breathing in mammals. J. Neurosci 26: 4860 - 4869. link
   
 

Poster presentation at SFN meeting

M.S. motherman, K.I. Kobayasi, J. Ma1, W. Metzne. Auditory Feedback Control of Multiple Call Parameters in Echolocating Horseshoe Bats Society for Neuroscience's 34th Annual Meeting San Diego, CA, USA 2004 November 12-16 link

 

   
  Review paper about songlearning.

Kobayasi IK, Okumura T, Tani J, Okanoya, K (2003) Neural mechanisms for bird song learning. Advances in Neurological Sciences 47: 653-666.link

 

 

 

 

 

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