Publications

Nick, T.A., Berman, L.M., and Barnehama, A.Z. (2015). Personalized neuroscience: User modeling of cognitive function and brain activity in the cloud. Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks . preprint

Nick, T.A. (2015). Models of vocal learning in the songbird: Historical frameworks and the stabilizing critic. Developmental Neurobiology, 75(10):1091-1113. preprint

Meyer, C.E., Boroda, E., and Nick, T.A. (2014). Sexually dimorphic perineuronal net expression in the songbird. Basal Ganglia, 3(4):229-237.

Day, N.F. and Nick, T.A. (2013) Rhythmic cortical neurons increase their oscillations and sculpt basal ganglia signaling during motor learning. Developmental Neurobiology, 73(10):754-68.

Day, N.F., Terleski, K.L., Nykamp, D.Q., and Nick, T.A. (2013) Directed functional connectivity matures with motor learning in a cortical pattern generator. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 109(4):913-923.

Day, N.F., Kerrigan, S.J., Aoki, N., and Nick, T.A. (2011) Identification of single neurons in a forebrain network. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(6):3205-15.

Balmer, T.S., Carels, V.M., Frisch, J.L., and Nick, T.A. (2009) Modulation of perineuronal nets and parvalbumin with developmental song learning. The Journal of Neuroscience. 29(41):12878-12885. Editorial Focus

Day, N.F., Kinnischtzke, A.K., Adam, M.A., and Nick, T.A. (2009) Daily and developmental modulation of "premotor" activity in the birdsong system. Developmental Neurobiology. 69(12):796-810.

Day, N.F., Kinnischtzke, A.K., Adam, M.A., and Nick, T.A. (2008) Top-down regulation of plasticity in the birdsong system: "Premotor" activity in the nucleus HVC predicts song variability better than it predicts song features. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 100:2956-2965.

Nick, T.A. (2008). Development of speech (animal model). In: Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Second Edition, MIT Press, C.A.Nelson & M. Luciana, eds. pgs. 453-464

Crandall, S.R., Adam, M.A., Kinnischtzke, A.K., and Nick, T.A. (2007) HVC neural sleep activity increases with development and parallels nightly changes in song behavior. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 98232-240. Editorial Focus

Crandall, S.R., Aoki, N., and Nick, T.A. (2007) Developmental modulation of the temporal relationship between brain and behavior. The Journal of Neurophysiology. 97(1):806-816.

Nick, T.A. and Konishi, M. (2005b) Neural auditory selectivity develops in parallel with song. The Journal of Neurobiology, 62(4):469-481.

Nick, T.A. and Konishi, M. (2005a) Neural song preference during vocal learning in the zebra finch depends on age and state. The Journal of Neurobiology, 62(2):231-242.

Nick, T.A. and Konishi, M. (2001) Dynamic control of auditory activity during sleep: Correlation between song response and EEG. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(24):14012-14016.

Nick, T.A. and Ribera, A.B. (2000) Synaptic activity modulates presynaptic excitability. Nature Neuroscience, 3(2):142-149.

White, B.H., Nick, T.A., Carew, T.J., and Kaczmarek, L.K. (1998) Protein kinase C regulates a vesicular class of calcium channels in the bag cell neurons of Aplysia. The Journal of Neurophysiology, 80(5):2514-2520.

Nick, T.A., Kaczmarek, L.K., and Carew, T.J. (1996) Ionic currents underlying developmental regulation of repetitive firing in Aplysia bag cell neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience, 16(23):7583-7598.

Nick, T.A., Moreira, J.E., Kaczmarek, L.K., Carew, T.J., and Wayne, N.L. (1996) Developmental dissociation of excitability and secretory ability in Aplysia bag cell neurons. The Journal of Neurophysiology, 76(5):3351-3359.

Wayne, N.L., Nick, T., and Block, G.D. (1996) Effects of temperature on reproductive endocrine function in Aplysia californica. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 102:351-359.

Lobaugh, N., Greene, P., Grant, M., Nick, T., and Amsel, A. (1989) Patterned (single) alternation in infant rats after combined or separate lesions of hippocampus and amygdala. Behavioral Neuroscience 103(6):1159-1167.