Vikram Gadagkar

The paper shows that dopaminergic signals for reward and performance shift during courtship in songbirds, with signals routed through distinct pathways based on social context.

This study shows dopamine neurons in singing birds evaluate natural fluctuations in song performance without external perturbations.

The paper shows that movement-related neuronal activity in the ventral pallidum and dopaminergic midbrain of singing birds is gated by behavioral state, switching from movement-locked to song-syllable-locked during singing.