MICHALE FEESummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Country: USA Publications
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Integration of cortical and pallidal inputs in the basal ganglia-recipient thalamus of singing birdsJesse H Goldberg
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
J Neurophysiol 108:1403-29. 2012..We present a unifying biophysical model that can reproduce all known modes of pallidothalamic transmission--rebound, gating, and entrainment--depending on the amount of excitation the thalamic neuron receives...- A hypothesis for basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning in the songbirdM S Fee
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Neuroscience 198:152-70. 2011..Given the similarity between mammalian and songbird BG-thalamocortical circuits, our model for the role of the BG in this process may have broader relevance to mammalian BG function... - New methods for localizing and manipulating neuronal dynamics in behaving animalsMichale S Fee
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 21:693-700. 2011..Both of these techniques are broadly applicable in behaving animals to test hypotheses about the biophysical and circuit dynamics that allow neural circuits to march from one state to the next... - Vocal experimentation in the juvenile songbird requires a basal ganglia circuitBence P Olveczky
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e153. 2005..Our results establish that, in the juvenile songbird, the exploratory motor behavior required to learn a complex motor sequence is dependent on a dedicated neural circuit homologous to cortico-basal ganglia circuits in mammals... 
Neural mechanisms of vocal sequence generation in the songbirdMichale S Fee
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1016:153-70. 2004..We incorporate this observation into a working hypothesis for the generation of vocal sequences in the songbird, and examine some implications for song learning...- The songbird as a model for the generation and learning of complex sequential behaviorsMichale S Fee
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
ILAR J 51:362-77. 2010..This review presents new techniques, experiments, and findings in areas where songbirds have made significant contributions toward understanding of some of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience... - A basal ganglia-forebrain circuit in the songbird biases motor output to avoid vocal errorsAaron S Andalman
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12518-23. 2009..Our observations support a view that basal ganglia-related circuits directly implement behavioral adaptations that minimize errors and subsequently stabilize these adaptations by training premotor cortical areas... - Using temperature to analyse temporal dynamics in the songbird motor pathwayMichael A Long
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Nature 456:189-94. 2008.... 
A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbirdDmitriy Aronov
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 320:630-4. 2008..Thus, juvenile singing is driven by a circuit distinct from that which produces the adult behavior-a separation possibly general to other developing motor systems...- Singing-related neural activity distinguishes two putative pallidal cell types in the songbird basal ganglia: comparison to the primate internal and external pallidal segmentsJesse H Goldberg
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Neurosci 30:7088-98. 2010..These results suggest that song learning in birds and motor learning in mammals use conserved basal ganglia signaling strategies... - Ensemble coding of vocal control in birdsongAnthony Leonardo
McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Neurosci 25:652-61. 2005..This permits rapidly changing RA ensembles to drive both fast and slow acoustic modulations, thereby transforming the sparse HVC code into a continuous vocal pattern... - Temporal sparseness of the premotor drive is important for rapid learning in a neural network model of birdsongIla R Fiete
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Neurophysiol 92:2274-82. 2004..We discuss the relevance of these results, linking sparse codes and learning speed, to other multilayered sensory and motor systems... - Vocal babbling in songbirds requires the basal ganglia-recipient motor thalamus but not the basal gangliaJesse H Goldberg
McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
J Neurophysiol 105:2729-39. 2011..These findings support the idea that the motor thalamus plays a key role in the expression of exploratory juvenile behaviors during learning... - Singing-related activity of identified HVC neurons in the zebra finchAlexay A Kozhevnikov
McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Neurophysiol 97:4271-83. 2007.... - Model of birdsong learning based on gradient estimation by dynamic perturbation of neural conductancesIla R Fiete
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
J Neurophysiol 98:2038-57. 2007..Varying the number of neurons in HVC and RA has little effect on learning time. The model makes specific predictions for the induction of bidirectional long-term plasticity at HVC --> RA synapses... - Sleep-related spike bursts in HVC are driven by the nucleus interface of the nidopalliumRichard H R Hahnloser
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH ETHZ, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurophysiol 97:423-35. 2007.... - Sleep-related neural activity in a premotor and a basal-ganglia pathway of the songbirdRichard H R Hahnloser
Institute for Neuroinformatics University of Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurophysiol 96:794-812. 2006..We propose that commonly observed coherency peaks at positive and negative time lags are caused by sequentially correlated HVC activity... - Measurement of the linear and nonlinear mechanical properties of the oscine syrinx: implications for functionMichale S Fee
Biological Computation Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 188:829-39. 2002..Implications for mechanisms of frequency tuning are discussed... - An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbirdRichard H R Hahnloser
Biological Computation Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA
Nature 419:65-70. 2002....
Research Grants
- Neural Basis of Sequence Generation in the SongbirdMICHALE FEE; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Performance Error Signals in Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits of the SongbirdMichale S Fee; Fiscal Year: 2010..Disorders of BG circuitry lead to the impairments of serial processing and sequential behaviors observed in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Huntington's and the tardive syndromes. ..
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Motor Exploration in the SongbirdMichale S Fee; Fiscal Year: 2010..Disorders of BG circuitry lead to the impairments of serial processing and sequential behaviors observed in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Huntington's and the tardive syndromes. ..
- Performance Error Signals in Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits of the SongbirdMichale S Fee; Fiscal Year: 2011..Disorders of BG circuitry lead to the impairments of serial processing and sequential behaviors observed in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Huntington's and the tardive syndromes. ..