Research

The Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Vocal Learning

Vocal learning underlies human language and represents a rare trait shared by only a handful of animal species. Given the absence of homologous animal...

The Cellular Underpinnings of Behavior Resilience

Learned behaviors including language are hard to recover after adult brain injury, given that they arise from experience-dependent circuit constructio...

Cross-Species Perspectives on the Early Evolution of Vocal Learning

The early evolution of human language remains poorly understood, and we hypothesize that its emergence may have proceeded via evolutionary transitions...