Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

So, Pallarés and his team spent the past 10 years researching the neural mechanisms behind a condition they called specific ...

Video of some of the different genetically engineered flies used to characterize the song circuit. The left image shows light microscopy images from different fly strains expressing different neurons.