Auditory discrimination learning and acoustic cue weighing in female zebra finches with localized FoxP1 knockdowns
- 1 May 2024
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Neurophysiology
- Vol. 131 (5) , 950-963
Abstract
In humans, mutations of the transcription factor FoxP1 are implicated in speech and language problems. In songbirds, FoxP1 has been linked to male song learning and female preference strength. We found that FoxP1 knockdowns in female HVC and caudomedial mesopallium (CMM) did not alter song discrimination or categorization based on spectral and temporal information. However, this large dataset allowed to validate different cue weights for spectral over temporal information for song recognition.Keywords
Funding Information
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (024.001.006)
- Max Planck Society
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