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Abstract
Animals that generate acoustic signals for social communication are faced with two essential tasks: generate a temporally precise signal and inform the auditory system about the occurrence of one's own sonic signal. Recent studies of sound producing fishes delineate a hindbrain network comprised of anatomically distinct compartments coding equally distinct neurophysiological properties that allow an organism to meet these behavioral demands. A set of neural characters comprising a vocal-sonic central pattern generator (CPG) morphotype is proposed for fishes and tetrapods that shares evolutionary developmental origins with pectoral appendage motor systems.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25050813 PMCID: PMC4177325 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.06.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Neurobiol ISSN: 0959-4388 Impact factor: 6.627