An Integrated model for motor control of song in serinus canaria

GABRIEL B. MINDLIN; ALONSO, RODRIGO GOGUI; AMADOR, ANA

Congreso; I Reunion de Biología del Comportamiento del Cono Sur; 2017

Birdsong is a learned motor behavior controlled by an interconnected structure of neural nuclei.This pathway is bilaterally organized, with anatomically indistinguishable structures in eachhemisphere. In this work, we present a computational model whose variables are the averageactivities of different neural nuclei of the song system of oscine birds. Two of the variablesrepresent the air sac pressure and the tension of the labia during canary song production. Weshow that these time dependent gestures can drive a model of the vocal organ into synthesizingrealistic canary like songs.