Nicolas Giret

The paper estimates motor exploration strategies in songbirds using a reinforcement learning framework and finds that non-ideal variability aligns with suboptimal learning trajectories.

The paper investigates neural activity patterns in the songbird anterior forebrain pathway during sleep and awake states, finding synchronized bursts in LMAN during NREM sleep similar to hippocampal sharp-wave ripples.

This study shows that deafened songbirds can maintain song stability using visual cues, as demonstrated by a new metric and behavioral task.

This study finds that social isolation in a familiar environment does not suppress singing in zebra finches, unlike isolation in an unfamiliar environment.

This study shows zebra finches can plan vocal changes to recover a target song without immediate sensory experience.

The paper investigates neuronal encoding of vocal signals in zebra finches, finding distinct timescales for detecting variations and tolerating structural differences in vocal signals.

This study uses sensory substitution in deaf songbirds to show that visual feedback can drive vocal learning and reveal a bias for actions that provide feedback.