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The units of a song

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Exactly when motor-planning neurons function to produce a bird's song is debatable. New data suggest that bursts of activity in these cells mark sudden changes in the commands to the vocal organ. See Article p.59

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Figure 1: The clock and gesture hypotheses.
Figure 2: The singer under investigation3.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion3 were published online on 27 February 2013.

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