The generation of precise respiratory rhythms is vital for birds, which must generate specific pressure patterns to perform several activities, song being one of the most demanding ones. These rhythms emerge as the interaction between a peripheral system and a set of neural nuclei which control...

Songbirds produce their vocalizations by means of a vocal organ called syrinx. A relatively small number of parameters are cyclically changed in order to produce a song. These time-dependent parameters are generated by a set of hierarchically organized neural nuclei. In this work we use...