Neural Activity During Call Production in the Female Zebra Finch Homolog of the Male Forebrain Song System.

ABSTRACT: Female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are unable to sing because of the vestigial development of forebrain song control areas such as the RA (nucleus robustus archistriatalis), a premotor nucleus of the song control pathway. In male zebra finches, RA is also involved in call-based vocal communication in addition to song control. Here, we monitored the activity of RA neurons during vocal communication in freely behaving females using a miniaturized telemetric recording device combined with telemetric audio recording. Neurons in the RA region showed premotor activity associated with stack and tet calls, two innate short-range social calls produced by both sexes. RA units were active when females called to respond to a male partner's call or to initiate a partner's call. However, spontan

SUBMITTER: Trost L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12042645 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature