Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

JJ Bolhuis, K Okanoya, C Scharff - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
Vocal imitation in human infants and in some orders of birds relies on auditory-guided motor
learning during a sensitive period of development. It proceeds from'babbling'(in humans) …

Cortical and basal ganglia contributions to habit learning and automaticity

FG Ashby, BO Turner, JC Horvitz - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
In the 20th century it was thought that novel behaviors are mediated primarily in cortex and
that the development of automaticity is a process of transferring control to subcortical …

How is a motor skill learned? Change and invariance at the levels of task success and trajectory control

L Shmuelof, JW Krakauer… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
The public pays large sums of money to watch skilled motor performance. Notably, however,
in recent decades motor skill learning (performance improvement beyond baseline levels) …

The ecology of entrainment: Foundations of coordinated rhythmic movement

J Phillips-Silver, CA Aktipis, G A. Bryant - Music perception, 2010 - online.ucpress.edu
Entrainment has been studied in a variety of contexts including music perception, dance,
verbal communication, and motor coordination more generally. Here we seek to provide a …