Publications
2022
Katic K., Morohashi Y. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. Neural Circuit for Social Authentication in Song Learning. Nat. Commun (2022) 13(1):4442. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32207-1
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. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac280
2021
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, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.039
2020
Kudo T., Morohashi 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. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2020.570174
2019
Book Chapter: ‘Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds’ in "The Neuroethology of Birdsong", SHAR volume 71 ed. by Sakata S.T., Woolley S.C., Springer, Fay R.R., Popper A.N. (2020), Springer
2018
Review Yazaki-Sugiyama (2019) Neuronal mechanisms regulating the critical period of sensory experience-dependent song learning. Special Issue in Neuroscience Research, doi: neures.2018.11.002
2017
Yanagihara S. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. (2018) Social interaction with a tutor modulates responsiveness of specific auditory neurons in juvenile zebra finches. Behav Proc, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2018.04.003
~2016
Araki M., Bandi M. M. and *Yazaki-Sugiyama Y. Mind the Gap: Neural Coding of Species Identity in Birdsong Prosody. Science 354: 1282-1287
Free access to full article
Full article in PDF format
Featured story in Science 354: 1234-1235 (Subscription required)
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.
Access the full 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 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.12757/abstract
Toyoizumi, T., Miyamoto, H., Yazaki-Sugiyama, Y., Atapour, N., *Hensch, T.K. and *Miller, K.D. (2013) A theory of the transition to critical period plasticity: inhibition selectivity suppresses spontaneous activity. Neuron 80: 51-63
Y-Sugiyama, Y., Kang, S., Câteau, H., Fukai, T. and Hensch, T.K. (2009) Bidirectional plasticity in fast-spiking GABA circuits by visual experience. Nature 462: 218-221
Kubke, M.F., Y-Sugiyama, Y., Mooney, R., and Wild, J.M. (2005) Physiology of neuronal subtypes mediating respiratory-vocal integration in the nucleus retroamigualis of the male zebra finch. J Neurophysiol 94: 2379-2390
Y-Sugiyama, Y. and Mooney, R. (2004) Sequential learning from multiple tutors and serial retuning of auditory neurons in a brain area important to birdsong learning. J Neurophysiol 92: 2771-2788. Focused by editor; J Neurophysiol 92 2642-2643 (2004)