Yazaki-Sugiyama, Yoko. 2024a. “Transient Sensorimotor Projections in the Developmental Song
Learning Period.” Cell Reports(2024)
Yazaki-Sugiyama, Yoko. 2024b. “Tutor Auditory Memory for Guiding Sensorimotor Learning in
Birdsong.” Frontiers in Neural Circuits(2024)
Katic K., Morohashi Y. and Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. Neural Circuit for Social Authentication in Song Learning. Nat. Commun (2022) 13(1):4442
Scarpa G.B., Starrett J..R, Li G..L, Brooks C., Morohashi Y., Yazaki-Sugiyama Y., Remage-Healey L. (2022) Estrogens rapidly shape synaptic and intrinsic properties to regulate the temporal precision of songbird auditory neurons. Cereb Cortex bhac280.
Spool J. A., Macedo-Lima M., Scarpa G., Morohashi Y., Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. and Remage-Healey L. (2021) Genetically-identified neurons in avian auditory pallium mirror core principles of their mammalian counterparts. Curr Biol 31:2831-2843.e6,
Kudo T, Morhashi Y and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. (2020) Early Auditory Experience Modifies Neuronal Firing Properties in the Zebra Finch Auditory Cortex. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 14:63.
Yanagihara S. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. (2018) Social interaction with a tutor modulates responsiveness of specific auditory neurons in juvenile zebra finches. Behav Proc,
Araki M., Bandi M. M. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. Mind the Gap: Neural Coding of Species Identity in Birdsong Prosody. Science354: 1282-1287
Yanagihara, S. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama, Y. (2016) Auditory experience dependent cortical circuit shaping for memory formation in bird song learning. Nat. Commun, doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS11946. (featured article)
*Yazaki-Sugiyama, Y., Yanagihara, S, Fuller, P.M. and Lazarus M. (2015) Acute inhibition of a cortical motor area impairs vocal control in singing zebra finches. Eur J Neuroscience 41:97-108
Select Invited talks
The 2023 Birdsong Symposium “Birdsong X: Welcome Back!” satellite event at SFN
“Transient auditory to motor neuronal projection subserving developmental song
learning in zebra finches”, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA,(2023)
THE DAVID BODIAN SEMINAR, “Transient auditory-motor projections subserving developmental song learning”, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, (2023)
“Variable axon connectivity of song memory ensembles in developmental zebra finch song learning”, International Symposium on Development and Plasticity of Neural System, (2022)
Invited lecture at Public lecture series at the 40th annual meetings of the Japanese Neuroscience Society, Tokyo Japan, (2017)
Gordon Research Conference -Auditory systems (2016) Selected short talk. ‘Mind the gap: Neuronal coding od species identity in birdsong prosody’, Bates College, USA
9th Avian Model Systems meeting (2016). ‘Chemogenetic control of neuronal activity in songbirds’, Taipei, Taiwan
Symposium at 38th Annual Meeting of Japanese Neuroscience Society, ‘The mechanisms of neuronal circuit formation and maturation in the developing brain’ (2015). ‘Learning to be a zebra finch. How does one identify vocalizations of one’s own species?’, Kobe Japan
