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Comment
. 2014 Dec;37(6):568-9; discussion 577-604.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13004160.

The basal ganglia within a cognitive system in birds and mammals

Christopher I Petkov  1 , Erich D Jarvis  2
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The basal ganglia within a cognitive system in birds and mammals

Christopher I Petkov et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Dec.

Abstract

The primate basal ganglia are fundamental to Ackermann et al.'s proposal. However, primates and rodents are models for human cognitive functions involving basal ganglia circuits, and links between striatal function and vocal communication come from songbirds. We suggest that the proposal is better integrated in cognitive and/or motor theories on spoken language origins and with more analogous nonhuman animal models.

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Figure 1
Summary diagrams of vocal systems in songbirds, humans, monkeys and mice. Modified from Arriaga and Jarvis (2013). Cortoco-striatal-thalamic loops are schematized from data in humans and songbirds. Yellow dashed lines in macaque monkeys and mice show proposed cortico-striatal-thalamic connections for vocalization that need to be tested.
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