Publications by authors named "Rodrigo G Alonso"
Birdsong is a learned motor behavior controlled by an interconnected structure of neural nuclei. This pathway is bilaterally organized, with anatomically indistinguishable structures in each brain hemisphere. In this work, we present a computational model whose variables are the average activities of different neural nuclei of the song system of oscine birds.
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- The production of songs in birds involves a complex network of brain nuclei that coordinate respiratory and vocal functions.
- A model was created to analyze the average neural activity within these nuclei, particularly focusing on respiratory patterns that can be measured.
- The findings indicate that a circular network controls vocal production instead of a straightforward top-down system, with specific inputs necessary for the expiratory related neural population to generate the observed pressure patterns in canaries' singing.