Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Echolocation-related reversal of information flow in a cortical vocalization network

  • Francisco García-Rosales,
  • Luciana López-Jury,
  • Eugenia González-Palomares,
  • Johannes Wetekam,
  • Yuranny Cabral-Calderín,
  • Ava Kiai,
  • Manfred Kössl,
  • Julio C. Hechavarría

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31230-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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How cortical areas interact during vocalization is not fully understood. Here the authors show that when bats vocalize, the behavioral function of emitted sounds determines the direction of information flow between frontal and auditory cortices.