Functional imaging (MRI) of starlings brains to unravel the neural basis of vocal communication in songbirds as a model for human communication.

Our project aims at understanding brain-behaviour interactions, with a special emphasis on the role of social factors on these interactions and as possible inducers of brain plasticity.This will be made possible by a whole brain approach, based on a rapidly expanding technique: small animal fMRI, applied to an original animal model: the European starling.

Keywords:COMMUNICATION, SONGBIRD BRAIN, MRI

Disciplines:Animal biology, Multimedia processing, Biological system engineering, Signal processing

Project type:Collaboration project