Dr. Rich Mooney - Song Learning: From Synapse to Behavior p1/3

This talk was given on 11/2/12 by Dr. Rich Mooney, Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Dr. Mooney discusses his work using optogenetics and electrophysiology to study interconnected brain nuclei in the songbird that acquire, produce, and maintain its learned vocalizations. Emory University’s Graduate Program in Neuroscience hosts weekly lectures by neuroscience researchers for their Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar Series.