“Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior,” by Vamsi Daliparthi, Todd Roberts, and 5 other authors is published in eLife.
June 2019 – Saravanan et al., eNeuro
“Dopamine Depletion Affects Vocal Acoustics and Disrupts Sensorimotor Learning,” by Varun Saravanan, Lukas Hoffmann, Amanda Jacob, Gordon Berman, and Sam Sober is published in eNeuro. Congratulations Varun and friends!
October 2018 – Sober et al., TINS
“Millisecond Spike Timing Codes for Motor Control,” a review of the types and mechanisms of precise spiking codes in the motor system across species co-authored by Sam Sober, Simon Sponberg, Ilya Nemenman, and Lena Ting, is published in Trends in Neuroscience.
September 2018 – Zhou et al., PNAS
“Chance, long tails, and inference in a non-Gaussian, Bayesian theory of vocal learning in songbirds” by Baohua Zhou, David Hofmann, Itai Pinkoviezky, Sam Sober, and Ilya Nemenman is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. Congrats Baohua et al.!
March 2018 – Nicholson et al., J.Comp. Neurol
“Thalamostriatal and cerebellothalamic pathways in a songbird, the Bengalese finch”David Nicholson (graduate student), Todd Roberts and Sam Sober are published in Journal of Comparative Neurology.
January 2017 – Srivastava et al., PNAS
“Motor control by precisely timed spike patterns” by Kyle Srivastava, Caroline Holmes, Michiel Vellema, Andrea Pack, Coen Elemans, Ilya Nemenman, and Sam Sober is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
January 2017 – Wyatt et al., eNeuro
“The Effects of Pitch Shifts on Delay-Induced Changes in Vocal Sequencing in a Songbird” by Mackenzie Wyatt, Emily Berthiaume, Conor Kelly, and Sam Sober is published in eNeuro.
February 2016 – Hoffmann et al., J. Neuroscience
“Dopaminergic contributions to Vocal Learning” by Lukas Hoffmann, Varun Saravanan, Lyndie Wood (graduate students), Li He (Emory Dept. of Opthamology), and Sam Sober is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
November 2015 – Elemans et al., Nature Communications
“Universal mechanisms of sound production and control in birds and mammals” by Kyle Srivastava (graduate student) Sam Sober, and 10 other coauthors is published in Nature Communications.
October 2015 – Srivastava et al., J. Neuroscience
“Multifunctional and Context-Dependent Control of Vocal Acoustics by Individual Muscles” Kyle Srivastava (graduate student) Coen Elemans, and Sam Sober is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.