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. 2014 Apr 2;82(1):6-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.03.010.

Achieving perfection through variability: the basal ganglia helped me do it!

Marc F Schmidt  1 , Long Ding  2
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Achieving perfection through variability: the basal ganglia helped me do it!

Marc F Schmidt et al. Neuron. .
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Motor variability can facilitate motor exploration necessary for learning. In this issue of Neuron, Woolley et al. (2014) record at different stages of the songbird basal ganglia and show that social-context modulation of motor variability first emerges in the pallidum.

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