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Zhang YS*, Alvarez JL and Ghazanfar AA (2022) Arousal elevation drives the development of oscillatory vocal output. Journal of Neurophysiology, 127 (6), 1519-1531
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Zhang YS* and Ghazanfar AA (2018) Vocal development through morphological computation. PLoS Biology, 16 (2), e2003933
Liao DA, Zhang YS, Cai LX and Ghazanfar AA (2018) Internal states and extrinsic factors both determine monkey vocal production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (15), 3978- 3983
Zhang YS, Wittenbach JD, Jin DZ and Kozhevnikov AA (2017) Temperature manipulation in songbird brain implicates the premotor nucleus HVC in birdsong syntax. Journal of Neuroscience, 37 (10), 2600- 2611
Ghazanfar AA and Zhang YS (2016) The autonomic nervous system is the engine for vocal development through social feedback. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40, 155-160
Zhang YS and Ghazanfar AA (2016) Perinatally influenced autonomic nervous system fluctuations drive infant vocal sequences. Current Biology, 26, 1249-1260
