“Variations on a theme: Songbirds, variability, and sensorimotor error correction” by Ben Kuebrich (graduate student) and Sam Sober is published in Neuroscience as part of a special issue on the contributions of different model organisms to neuroscience research.
December 2014 – Tang et al., PLoS Biology
“Millisecond-Scale Motor Encoding in a Cortical Vocal Area” by Claire Tang (undergraduate), Kyle Srivastava (graduate student), Diala Chehayeb (technician), Ilya Nemenman (Emory Physics and Bio Departments) and Sam Sober is published in PLoS Biology.
September 2014 – Kelly & Sober, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
“A simple computational principle predicts vocal adaptation dynamics across age and error size” by Conor Kelly and Sam Sober is published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
April 2014 – Hoffmann et al., J. Neuroscience
“Vocal generalization depends on gesture identity and sequence” by Lukas Hoffmann (graduate student) and Sam Sober is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
February 2014 – Sober & Calabrese (commentary)
Sam’s commentary (co-authored with Ron Calabrese) on Hamaguchi et al. (“Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches”) is published in eLife.
December 2012 – Sober & Brainard, PNAS
“Vocal learning is constrained by the statistics of sensorimotor experience”, by Sam Sober and Michael Brainard, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
November 2012 – Hoffmann et al., JoVE
“A lightweight, headphones-based system for manipulating auditory feedback in songbirds”, by Lukas Hoffmann, Conor Kelly, David Nicholson, and Sam Sober, is published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments
October 2012 – Sober & Koerding
Sam’s commentary (co-authored with Konrad Koerding) on Blohm and Burns (“Multi-sensory weights depend on contextual noise in reference frame transformations”) is published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.