2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Establishment of an animal model of timing production for speech and investigation of brain locations involved in the timing control
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15K16566
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Basic / Social brain science
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | リズム / コミュニケーション / 双方向性 / 時間 / 精度 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Appropriate timing and enough precision of speech production is essential for our vocal communication to represent our intention. In the present research, we aimed to establish an animal model which produces appropriate timing with enough precision to investigate the brain mechanism of timing production for quick actions such as speech, by using a conventional laboratory animal, guinea pig. We succeeded to condition guinea pigs to discriminate at most three timing cues and to switch timing of response for each cue. Guinea pigs produced timing with ±5% error (at minimum) for 0.3 sec timing, which is comparable to real vocal communication of guinea pig. Taken together, the animal model was successfully established and now we have a basis to study how brain produces timing to represent our intention with invasive techniques.
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| Free Research Field |
脳の時間生成
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