Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Wireless battery free fully implantable multimodal recording and neuromodulation tools for songbirds

  • Jokubas Ausra,
  • Stephanie J. Munger,
  • Amirhossein Azami,
  • Alex Burton,
  • Roberto Peralta,
  • Julie E. Miller,
  • Philipp Gutruf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22138-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Studies requiring neural modulation in species that fly are difficult because of the need for wired connections to record experimental data. Here, Ausra et al. present a wireless and battery free device that achieves this in songbirds, model organisms used to study vocal learning and maintenance.