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University of Pennsylvania
Department of Biology
312 Leidy Laboratories
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 312 Leidy
Office phone: 215.898.9375
Fax: 215.898.8780
E-mail: marcschm@sas.upenn.edu
Research Interests
Birdsong is a highly tractable learned motor behavior. Over the years,
great progress has been made in identifying the anatomical circuitry
necessary for song production and learning. Only recently, however,
has the field started to study the functional organization of these
circuits and understand the neural encoding schemes that underlie these
remarkably precise and stereotyped motor behaviors. In my laboratory,
we are using a combination of neural recording techniques in forebrain
song control nuclei of awake and anesthetized songbirds to address four
primary issues: (1) neural mechanisms of behavioral state-dependent
auditory processing, (2) neural encoding of forebrain vocal motor commands,
(3) neural correlates of vocal ontogeny, and (4) comparative approaches
to motor and auditory encoding.
Graduate Groups
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