Elliot A. Layden

Improvements in task performance after practice are associated with scale-free dynamics of brain activity

The paper finds that higher scale-free dynamics in brain activity, measured by the Hurst exponent, correlate with greater practice-related performance improvements across three different tasks.

Functional connectivity strength within the auditory forebrain is altered by song learning and predicts song stereotypy in developing male zebra finches

The paper examines how song learning in zebra finches affects functional connectivity in the auditory forebrain and its link to song stereotypy.

Interhemispheric Integration for Complex Behaviors, Absent the Corpus Callosum in Normal Ontogeny

The paper shows zebra finches exhibit functional homotopy between brain regions involved in song learning despite lacking a corpus callosum, suggesting alternative mechanisms for interhemispheric coordination.