AUTHOR=Lassa Ortiz Javier N. , Herbert Cecilia T. , Mindlin Gabriel B. , Amador Ana 

TITLE=Significant Instances in Motor Gestures of Different Songbird Species

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2019.00142

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2019.00142

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=<p>The nervous system representation of a motor program is an open problem for most behaviors. In birdsong production, it has been proposed that some special temporal instances, linked to significant aspects of the motor gestures used to generate the song, are preferentially represented in the cortex. In this work, we compute these temporal instances for two species, and report which of them is better suited to test the proposed coding (as well as alternative models) against data.</p>