鹦鹉和人类前脑运动网络中的收敛声音表征.pdfVIP

Convergentvocalrepresentationsinparrot

andhumanforebrainmotornetworks

1,21,2 ✉

/10.1038/s41586-025-08695-8ZetianYangMichaelA.Long

Received:16July2024

Accepted:23January2025Corticalnetworksfortheproductionofspokenlanguageinhumansareorganizedby

Publishedonline:xxxxxxxxphoneticfeatures1,2,suchasarticulatoryparameters3,4andvocalpitch5,6.Previous

researchhasfailedtofndanequivalentforebrainrepresentationinotherspecies7–11.

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Toinvestigatewhetherthisfunctionalorganizationisuniquetohumans,herewe

performedpopulationrecordingsinthevocalproductioncircuitryofthebudgerigar

(Melopsittacusundulatus),asmallparrotthatcangeneratefexiblevocaloutput12–15,

includingmimickedspeechsounds16.Usinghigh-densitysiliconprobes17,wemeasured

thesong-relatedactivityofaforebrainregion,thecentralnucleusoftheanterior

arcopallium(AAC),whichdirectlyprojectstobrainstemphonatorymotorneurons18–20.

WefoundthatAACneuronsformafunctionalvocalmotormapthatrefectsthe

spectralpropertiesofongoingvocalizations.Wedidnotobservethisorganizing

principleinthecorrespondingforebraincircuitryofthezebrafnch,asongb