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TY - JOUR AU - Roberts, Todd F AU - Hisey, Erin AU - Tanaka, Masashi AU - Kearney, Matthew G AU - Chattree, Gaurav AU - Yang, Cindy F AU - Shah, Nirao M AU - Mooney, Richard PY - 2017 DA - 2017/07/01 TI - Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning JO - Nature Neuroscience SP - 978 EP - 986 VL - 20 IS - 7 AB - Although vocal learning is widely speculated to depend on motor to auditory (i.e., forward) pathways, the neurons that convey forward signals important to vocal learning remain unknown. Here the authors identify neurons that transmit signals from songbird motor to auditory regions and demonstrate their role in vocal learning. SN - 1546-1726 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4563 DO - 10.1038/nn.4563 ID - Roberts2017 ER -