INVESTIGADORES
ARNEODO Ezequiel Matias
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Reconstruction of motor gestures in birdsong
Autor/es:
YONATAN SANZ PERL; EZEQUIEL M. ARNEODO; ANA AMADOR; FRANZ GOLLER; GABRIEL B. MINDLIN
Lugar:
Huerta Grande, Córdoba.
Reunión:
Congreso; SAN 2011 (Reunión anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Neurociencias); 2011
Institución organizadora:
Sociedad Argentina de Neurociencias
Resumen:
Behavior emerges as the interaction between a nervous system, a peripheral biomechanical device and the environment.
In birdsong production, this observation is particularly important: songbirds are an ideal animal model to unveil
how brain structures reconfigure themselves during learning of a complex behavior as song. Therefore it is important to
understand which features of behavior are controlled by independent tuning of neurophysiological parameters, and
which are constrained by the biomechanics of the peripheral vocal organ. In this work we show that many of the acoustic features
in the Zebra finch song are in fact conditioned by the biomechanics involved. We show how to reconstruct the physiological
parameters used to drive the avian vocal organ during birdsong production from recorded song. The procedure involves fitting the
time dependent parameters of a model. It is implemented as dynamical system ruling the behavior of the oscillating
labia that modulate the air flow during birdsong production, together with the equations describing the dynamics
of pressure fluctuations in the vocal tract. Finally, we compared the reconstructed
keeps both bifurcations:
instructions with direct measurements of the physiological parameters during song and synthetised a realistic song.