Publications by authors named "Erin M Wall"

Article Synopsis
  • - Communication plays a crucial role in building and maintaining social connections, with the understanding of signals influenced by individual experiences throughout life.
  • - The study focused on how female zebra finches develop preferences for their mate's song, finding that 2 weeks of living with a male leads to preferences regardless of whether they had prior exposure to song.
  • - This research suggests that actual social interactions, like cohabitation, are key for shaping auditory preferences, while merely hearing a song without interaction does not create the same effect.
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Vocal communication signals can provide listeners with information about the signaler and elicit motivated responses. Auditory cortical and mesolimbic reward circuits are often considered to have distinct roles in these processes, with auditory cortical circuits responsible for detecting and discriminating sounds and mesolimbic circuits responsible for ascribing salience and modulating preference for those sounds. Here, we investigated whether dopamine within auditory cortical circuits themselves can shape the incentive salience of a vocal signal.

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The neurotransmitter acetylcholine influences how male finches perform courtship songs by acting on a region of the premotor cortex called HVC.

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