Browsing by Author "Olveczky, Bence"
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A Bird's Eye View of Neural Circuit Formation
Olveczky, Bence P; Gardner, Timothy J. (Elsevier, 2011)Neural circuits underlying complex learned behaviors, such as speech in humans, develop under genetic constraints and in response to environmental influences. Little is known about the rules and mechanisms through which ... -
Changes in the Neural Control of a Complex Motor Sequence during Learning
Olveczky, Bence P; Otchy, Timothy Matthew; Goldberg, Jesse H.; Aronov, Dmitriy; Fee, Michale S. (American Physiological Society, 2011)The acquisition of complex motor sequences often proceeds through trial-and-error learning, requiring the deliberate exploration of motor actions and the concomitant evaluation of the resulting performance. Songbirds learn ... -
Design and Assembly of an Ultra-light Motorized Microdrive for Chronic Neural Recordings in Small Animals
Otchy, Timothy Matthew; Olveczky, Bence P (MyJoVE Corporation, 2012)The ability to chronically record from populations of neurons in freely behaving animals has proven an invaluable tool for dissecting the function of neural circuits underlying a variety of natural behaviors, including ... -
A Fully Automated High-Throughput Training System for Rodents
Poddar, Rajesh; Kawai, Risa; Ölveczky, Bence P. (Public Library of Science, 2013)Addressing the neural mechanisms underlying complex learned behaviors requires training animals in well-controlled tasks, an often time-consuming and labor-intensive process that can severely limit the feasibility of such ... -
LEARNING-RELATED CHANGES IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY WITHIN THE ZEBRA FINCH SONG-CONTROL CIRCUIT
Garst Orozco, Jonathan (2014-06-06)Many species-specific sensorimotor behaviors, such as speech in humans, emerge from the interplay between genetically defined developmental programs and sensory experience. How these processes interact during learning to ... -
Modularity in birdsong motor learning: delineating the role of the basal ganglia
Ali, Farhan (2014-10-21)Speech, writing, and tool-use are all prime examples of everyday learned motor skills that together with dance, music, and sports performance represent the full glory of human cultural expression afforded by dexterous ... -
Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning
Roberts, Todd F.; Gobes, Sharon M. H.; Murugan, Malavika; Olveczky, Bence P; Mooney, Richard (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)Premotor circuits help generate imitative behaviors and can be activated during observation of another animal′s behavior, leading to speculation that these circuits participate in sensory learning that is important to ... -
Motoring Ahead with Rodents
Olveczky, Bence P (Elsevier, 2011)How neural circuits underlie the acquisition and control of learned motor behaviors has traditionally been explored in monkeys and, more recently, songbirds. The development of genetic tools for functional circuit analysis ... -
A neural circuit mechanism for regulating vocal variability during song learning in zebra finches
Garst-Orozco, Jonathan; Babadi, Baktash; Ölveczky, Bence P (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2014)Motor skill learning is characterized by improved performance and reduced motor variability. The neural mechanisms that couple skill level and variability, however, are not known. The zebra finch, a songbird, presents a ... -
The role of motor cortex in the acquisition and production of learned motor sequences
Kawai, Risa (2014-06-06)Motor skill learning underlies much of what we do, be it hitting a tennis serve, playing the piano, or simply brushing our teeth. Yet despite its importance, little is known about the neural circuits that implement the ...