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Ofer Tchernichovski

uses the songbird to study the mechanisms of vocal learning.

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Selected Publications

Tchernichovski O & Marcus G (2014) Vocal learning beyond imitation: mechanisms of adaptive vocal development in songbirds and human infants. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, pp. 42-47
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.06.002

Rothenberg D, Roeske TC, Voss H, Naguib M & Tchernichovski O (2014) Investigation of musicality in birdsong. Hearing Research

Lipkind D, Marcus GF, Bemis DK, Sasahara K, Jacoby N, Takahasi M, Suzuki K, Feher O, Ravbar P, Okanoya K & Tchernichovski O. (2013) Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature12173 + Shared protocol for babbling analysis

Ravbar, P., Lipkind, D., Parra, L. C., & Tchernichovski, O. (2012). Vocal Exploration Is Locally Regulated during Song Learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 7 March 2012, 32(10):3422-3432

Lipkind, D., Tchernichovski, O (2011) Quantification of developmental birdsong learning from the subsyllabic scale to cultural evolution. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1012941108

Feher, O., Wang, H., Saar, S., Mitra, PP, Tchernichovski, O. (2009) De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch. Nature 459 2009 DOI: 10.1038

Tchernichovski, O., Wallman, Josh (2008). Neurons of imitation. Nature 451 17 pp 249-250 

Voss, H. U., Tabelow, K., Polzehl, J, Tchernichovski, O., Maul, K. K., Salgado-Commissariat, D., Ballon, D.  and Helekar, S. A. (2007) Functional MRI suggests a lateralized topography of responses to song stimulation in the zebra finch brain. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.) 104, 10667-10672.

Deregnaucourt S, Mitra PP, Feher O, Pytte C, Tchernichovski O (2005) How sleep affects the developmental learning of bird song. Nature, Vol. 433, No. 7027. (17 February 2005), pp. 710-716.


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