Super excited about this new paper! and eternally grateful to the amazing coauthors, the wonderful network of colleagues who gave us stimuli, and all of the thousands of people that listened to animal sounds for us!

Very excited to share the newest paper from the Sakata Lab. Congratulations to Xinghaoyun Wan (and Angela Wang, Daria Storch, and Vivian Li) who demonstrated how perineuronal nets in vocal circuitry regulate birdsong performance! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Zebra finches are nuanced communicators. In partnership with @loganjames.bsky.social & Sarah Woolley, we’re building AI models to decode their vocalizations. apnews.com/article/arti... (Big thanks to @reidhoffman.bsky.social & @waverleystreet.bsky.social for making this work possible).