Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club! A collaboration of the Carboncopies Foundation and BPF Aspirational Neuroscience
This time, we’re exploring a classic birdsong review on how brains generate and learn complex sequences:
“The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors” Authors: Michale S. Fee & Constance Scharff Institutions: MIT; Freie Universität Berlin
Songbirds learn vocalizations through imitation and feedback—progressing from early “babbling” to highly stereotyped adult song. This paper synthesizes how specialized circuits (including a motor pathway and a basal ganglia–forebrain loop) support both precise sequence generation and learning-driven variability. We’ll discuss what this work reveals about neural “templates,” error correction, and how sequential behaviors can be both produced and refined—key themes that connect directly to memory, learning, and decoding structured neural dynamics.
Join Us for the Memory Decoding Journal Club!
A collaboration of the Carboncopies Foundation and BPF Aspirational Neuroscience
This time, we’re exploring a classic birdsong review on how brains generate and learn complex sequences:
“The Songbird as a Model for the Generation and Learning of Complex Sequential Behaviors”
Authors: Michale S. Fee & Constance Scharff
Institutions: MIT; Freie Universität Berlin
Songbirds learn vocalizations through imitation and feedback—progressing from early “babbling” to highly stereotyped adult song. This paper synthesizes how specialized circuits (including a motor pathway and a basal ganglia–forebrain loop) support both precise sequence generation and learning-driven variability. We’ll discuss what this work reveals about neural “templates,” error correction, and how sequential behaviors can be both produced and refined—key themes that connect directly to memory, learning, and decoding structured neural dynamics.
Presented by: Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
When? Tuesday, February 17, 2026 – 3:00 PM PST | 6:00 PM EST | 11:00 PM UTC
Where? Video conference: https://carboncopies.org/aspirational-neuroscience
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