Selected Publications
- He J, Fu T, Zhang L, Wanrong Gao L, Rensel M, Remage-Healey L, White SA, Gedman G, Whitelegge J, Xiao X, Schlinger BA (2022) Improved zebra finch brain transcriptome identifies novel proteins with sex differences. Gene, 843: 146803
- Aamodt CM & White SA (2022) Inhibition of miR-128 enhances vocal sequence organization in juvenile songbirds. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Coleman MJ & White SA (2021) Basal ganglia: Bursting with song. Current Biology, 31: R781-R806
- White SA & Wright TF (2021) Why zebra finches don’t get hypercholesterolemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Cooke EK & White SA (2021) Learning in the time of COVID: insights from the zebra finch – a social vocal-learner. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 68: 84-90
- CORRECTION TO: Aamodt CM*, Farias-Virgens M* & White SA (2019) Birdsong as a window into language origins and evolutionary neuroscience, Phil Trans R Soc B, 372: 20190060 (*equal coauthorship)
- Aamodt CM*, Farias-Virgens M* & White SA (2019) Birdsong as a window into language origins and evolutionary neuroscience, Phil Trans R Soc B, 372: 20190060 (*equal coauthorship)
- Day NF, Hobbs TG, Heston JB & White SA (2019) Beyond critical period learning: Striatal FoxP2 affects active maintenance of learned vocalizations in adulthood, eNeuro, 0071-19.2019
- Eisthen HL, Halanych KM, Kelley DB, White SA, Phelps SM & 66 others (2018) New NSF policy will stifle innovation, Science, 362: 297-8
- Heston JB, Simon IV J, Day NF, Coleman MJ & White SA (2018) Bi-directional scaling of vocal variability by an avian cortico-basal ganglia circuit, Physiological Reports, 6: e13638
- Burkett ZD, Day NF, Kimball TH, Aamodt CM, Heston JB, Hilliard AT, Xiao X & White SA (2018) FoxP2 isoforms delineate spatiotemporal transcriptional networks for vocal learning in the zebra finch. eLife, 7:e30649
- Farias-Virgens M & White SA (2017) A sing-song way of vocalizing: Generalization and specificity in language and birdsong. Neuron, 96: 958-960
- Heston JB & White SA (2017) To transduce a zebra finch: Interrogating behavioral mechanisms in a model system for human speech. J Comp Physiol A
- Fraley ER, Burkett ZD, Day NF, Schwartz BA, Phelps PE & White SA (2016) Mice with Dab1 or Vldlr insufficiency exhibit abnormal neonatal vocalization patterns. Sci Rep, 6: 25807
- Berg JM, Lee C, Chen L, Galvan L, Cepeda C, Chen JY, Penagarkano O, Stein JL, Li A, Oguro-Ando A, Miller JA, Vahisht AA, Starks ME, Kite EP, Al-Sharif NB, Burkett ZD, White SA, Fears SC, Levine MS, Wohlschlegel JA & Geschwind DG (2015) JAKMIP1 links regulation of neuronal protein translation to autism. Neuron, 88: 1173-1191
- *Miller JE, *Hafzalla G, Burkett ZD, Fox CM & White SA. (2015) Reduced vocal variability in a zebra finch model of dopamine depletion: Implications for Parkinson disease. Physiol Rep, 3: e12599 (*equal authorship)
- Burkett ZD, Day NF, Penagarikaňo O, Geschwind DH & White SA. (2015) VoICE: A semi-automated pipeline for standardizing vocal analysis across models. Sci Rep, 5: 10237
- Hara E, Perez J, Whitney O, Chen Q, White SA & Wright T. (2015) Neural FoxP2 and FoxP1 expression in the budgerigar, an avian species with adult vocal learning. Behav Br Res, 283: 22-29
- Heston JB & White SA (2015) Behavior-linked FoxP2 regulation enables zebra finch vocal learning. J Neurosci, 35: 2885-2894
- Whitney O, Voyles T, Hara E, Chen Q, White SA & Wright T. (2015) Differential FoxP2 and FoxP1 expression in a vocal learning nucleus of the developing budgerigar. Dev Neurobiol, 75: 778-790
- Knudsen KS, Kaufman DS, White SA, Silva AJ, Jentsch DJ & Bilder RM (2015) Animal Creativity: Cross-Species Studies of Cognition. In: Animal Creativity and Innovation. AB Kaufman & JC Kaufman (Eds). (213-237). Elsevier, Inc.
- Condro MC and White SA (2014) Recent advances in the genetics of vocal learning. Comp Cog Behav Rev
- Condro MC and White SA (2014) Distribution of language-related Cntnap2 protein in neural circuitry dedicated to vocal learning. J Comp Neurol
- Grant LM, Richter D, Basken JN, Miller JE, White SA, Fox CM, Chesselet M-F, Ciucci MR (2014) Early vocalization deficits in a transgenic mouse model of Parkinson’s Disease. Behav Neurosci
- White, SA (2013). FoxP2 and vocalization. In C Lefebvre, B Comrie, H Cohen (Eds), New Perspectives on the Origins of Language (211 – 236). Johns Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Day NF and Fraley ER (2013) Insights from a nonvocal learner on social communication. J Neurosci, 33(31):12553-12554
- Chen Q, Heston JB , Burkett ZD & White SA (2013) Expression analysis of speech-related genes FoxP1 and FoxP2 and their relation to singing behavior in two songbird species. Journal of Experimental Biology. JEB, 216(19): 3682-92
- Hilliard AT, Miller JE, Horvath S & White SA (2012) Distinct neurogenomic states in basal ganglia subregions relate differently to singing behavior in songbirds. PLoS Comp Biol
- *Hilliard AT, *Miller JE, Fraley ER, Horvath S & White SA (2012) Molecular microcircuitry underlies the functional specification of a basal ganglia circuit dedicated to vocal learning. Neuron, 73: 537-552 (*equal authorship)
- Panaitof SC, Abrahams BS, Dong H, Geschwind DH & White SA (2010) Language-related Cntnap2 is differentially expressed in sexually dimorphic nuclei essential for vocal learning in songbirds. J Comp Neurol, 518:1995-2018
- Miller JE, Hilliard AT & White SA (2010) Song practice promotes acute vocal variability during sensorimotor learning. PLoS ONE 5:85-92
- Teramitsu I, Poopatanapong A, Torrisi S & White SA (2010) Striatal FoxP2 is actively regulated during songbird sensorimotor learning. PLoS ONE 5:8548
- White SA (2010) Genes and vocal learning. Brain & Language, 115:21-28
- Spence R, Zhen Y, White S, Schlinger BA & Day LB. (2009) Recovery of motor and cognitive function after cerebellar lesions in a songbird: role of estrogens. Eur J Neurosci, 29: 1225-1234
- Hilliard AT & White SA (2009) Possible precursors of syntactic components in other species, In : Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax, edited by Derek Bickerton and Eors Szathmary; Sturngmann Forum Reports, vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Szamado S, Bishop D, d’Errico F, Fischer J, Hurford J, Ocanoya K, Szathmary E & White SA (2009) What are the possible biological and genetic foundations for syntactic phenomena?, In : Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax, edited by Derek Bickerton and Eors Szathmary; Sturngmann Forum Reports, vol. 3. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Miller JE, Spiteri E, Condro M, Dosumu-Johnson R, Geschwind DH & White SA (2008) Birdsong decreases protein levels of FoxP2, a molecule required for human speech. J Neurophysiol, 100:2015-2025
- Teramitsu I & White SA (2008) Motor learning: the FoxP2 puzzle piece. Current Biology, R335-337
- Miller JE & White SA (2008) The sleeping bird gets the song. J Neurophysiol, 98: 3-4
- Poopatanapong A, Teramitsu I, Byun JS, Vician LC, Herschman HR & White SA (2006) Synaptotagmin IV induction by singing, but not by seizure, in the zebra finch song circuit. J Neurobiol, 66:1613-1629
- Wada K, Howard J, McDonnell P, Lints T, Rivas MV, Whitney O, Horita H, Patterson M, White SA, Zhao S, Sakaguchi H, Hagiwara M, Shiraki T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Skene P, Hayashizaki Y, Carninci P& Jarvis ED (2006) A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes. PNAS, 103: 15212-15217
- White SA, Fisher SE, Geschwind DH, Scharff C, Holy TE (2006) Singing mice, songbirds, and more: models for FOXP2 function and dysfunction in human speech and language. J Neurosci, 26: 10376-10379
- Teramitsu I & White SA (2006) FoxP2 regulation during undirected singing in adult songbirds. J Neurosci, 26: 7390-7394
- The Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium (2005) Avian brains and a paradigm shift in understanding vertebrate brain evolution. Nat Rev Neurosci, 6:151-159
- Scharff C & White SA (2004) Genetic components of vocal learning, In: The Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong edited by H Philip Zeigler and Peter Marler; Ann NY Acad Sci vol. 1016, pp 325-347
- Teramitsu I, Kudo LC, London SE, Geschwind DH & White SA (2004) Parallel FoxP1 and FoxP2 expression in human and songbird brain predicts functional interaction. J Neurosci 24, 3152-3163. Received editorial commentary in the journal, Science 304: 18 and Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5: 341
Behavioral regulation of FoxP2 in two songbirds (Chen et al., 2013)
WGCNA gene modules in Area X (Hillard, Miller et al., 2012)
FoxP2 protein in Area X (Miller et al., 2008)
Behavior-driven mRNA regulation of FoxP2 (Teramitsu & White, 2006)
FoxP expression in the songbird brain (Teramitsu & White, 2004)
