{"id":9566,"date":"2023-12-04T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/?p=9566"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:31:27","slug":"birdsong-and-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/birdsong-and-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdsong and neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9566\" class=\"elementor elementor-9566\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1f466f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1f466f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-638d2c1\" data-id=\"638d2c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c8d221 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8c8d221\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3236\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience.jpg 800w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience-540x342.jpg 540w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/blogue_chants_oiseaux_neuroscience-600x380.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-40e01e9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"40e01e9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-354bb99\" data-id=\"354bb99\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c3afae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0c3afae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>When birds visit the lab! How can birdsong be used in language studies?<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent project at the lab that included Isabelle Deschamps, Pascale Tremblay, and Melody Courson, we used <a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-tms\/\">transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)<\/a> to interfere with the normal functioning of neurons in regions involved in the processing of phonological memory (PM).<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PM is a type of short-term memory (1 to 2 seconds) involved in the temporary storage of verbal information. PM allows, for example, the retention of a person\u2019s address while listening to directions to get there. The brain needs to store the words we hear while it analyzes all the information.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During their visit to the lab, participants had to listen to pairs of sounds, which could be either birdsongs or strings of syllables that are possible in Quebec French (e.g., \u201cfidali [pause] fidali\u201d). They had to determine if the two sounds were identical or different, which resorts to PM. TMS was used during the pause between the sounds every other time to compare their responses before and after TMS in two brain regions involved in PM.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Birdsongs were used in this study as highly complex auditory stimuli (similar to language!) to understand if PM stores all types of auditory information or only linguistic information.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our results support the idea that PM processes all types of sounds, as TMS affected participants\u2019 performance in listening to both birdsongs and syllables.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s the link to this paper:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Deschamps2020_Article_ThePhonologicalLoopIsSpeechSpe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The phonological loop: Is speech special?<\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have published other studies involving birdsongs, as they allow us to determine which brain mechanisms are specific to language and which are involved in processing all complex sounds. Here are some of these additional studies:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/deschamps_hasson_tremblay_2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The structural correlates of statistical information processing during speech perception<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Tremblay_Baroni_Hasson_2012_NMG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Processing of speech and non-speech sounds in the supratemporal plane: Auditory input preference does not predict sensitivity to statistical structure<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8a4aa4d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8a4aa4d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d961361\" data-id=\"d961361\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72b111d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72b111d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5317a2e\" data-id=\"5317a2e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ec38c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ec38c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Suggested Readings:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/launch-of-the-lab-video\/\">Lab video<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-tms\/\">Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/histoire-de-la-stimulation-magnetique-transcranienne\/\">History of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/difference-between-speech-language-and-communication\/\">Difference between speech, language and communication<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When birds visit the lab! How can birdsong be used in language studies?<br \/>\nIn a recent project at the lab that included Isabelle Deschamps, Pascale Tremblay, and Melody Courson, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to interfere with the normal functioning of neurons in regions involved in the processing of phonological memory (PM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[614,377,584,347,336,613],"ppma_author":[54,60],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-projects","tag-birdsong","tag-memory","tag-phonology","tag-stimulation-2","tag-tms-2","tag-transcranial"],"authors":[{"term_id":54,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin-pascale","display_name":"Pascale Tremblay","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea9e5826afc1fd507cc7b89eaca37953ea310ad30088c3920137ab8e86846244?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Tremblay","first_name":"Pascale","job_title":"","description":""},{"term_id":60,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"catherine-fontaine-lavallee","display_name":"Catherine Fontaine-Lavall\u00e9e","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9570,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions\/9570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}