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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

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On the right you can see the regular uninhibited activity of the arcopalium in the zebra finch brain. After use of chemogenetic inhibition, there is a decrease in neuronal activity which in turn causes the acoustic structure of the song (on the left) to change.

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