Monday lecture Series
Neural Circuits UnderlyinG Motor Exploration During Learning
Jesse Goldberg
Postdoctoral Fellow
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wednesday, February 15 2012
4 p.m. , Caspary Auditorium. Refreshments 3:45 p.m.
Recommended Readings:
Bouvrie J; Slotine JJ. 2011. Synchronization and redundancy: Implications for robustness of neural learning and decision making. Neural Computation. 23(11):2915-2941.
Fee M; Goldberg JH. 2011. A hypothesis for basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning in the songbird. Neuroscience. 198 (S1):152-170. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.069
Shmuelof L; Krakauer JW. 2011. Are we ready for a natural history of motor learning? Neuron. 72(3):469-476.
Goldberg JJ; Fee MS. 2011. Vocal babbling in songbirds requires the basal ganglia-recipient motor thalamus but not the basal ganglia. Journal of Neurophysiology. 105(6):2729-2739.
Oelveczky BP; Otchy TM; Goldberg JH; et al. 2011. Changes in the neural control of a complex motor sequence during learning. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(1):386-397. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00018.2011
Thompson JA; Basista MJ; We W; et al. 2011. Dual Pre-motor contribution to songbird syllable variation. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(1):322-330. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5967-09.2011
Goldberg JH; Adler A; Bergman H; et al. 2010. Singing-related neural activity distinguishes two putative pallidal cell types in the songbird basal ganglia: Comparison to the primate internal and external pallidal segments. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(20):7088-7098. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0168-10.2010
