Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of vocal turn-taking in zebra finches

  • Jonathan I. Benichov,
  • Daniela Vallentin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13938-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Control over when to initiate or withhold vocalizations is essential for vocal turn-taking. Here the authors investigate vocal interactions in zebra finches and show that inhibition within the premotor nucleus HVC plays an important role in the precise timing of vocal motor responses.