title: Continuous Time Representations of Song in Zebra Finches.
abstract: Neurons in the songbird nucleus HVC produce premotor bursts time locked to song with millisecond precision. In this issue of Neuron, Lynch et al. (2016) and Picardo et al. (2016) provide convincing evidence that the population of these bursts contain a continuous representation of time throughout song.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and the Neurosciences Institute, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA. Electronic address: todd.troyer@utsa.edu.
authors.forename: Todd W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Troyer
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D046369:Finches / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*