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Tufts University: Medford, MA, US

2024-07-01 to present | Associate Professor (Biology Department)
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Mimi Kao

Tufts University: Medford, MA, US

2016-01-01 to 2024-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Biology Department)
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Mimi Kao

Education and qualifications (3)

University of California, San Francisco: San Francisco, CA, US

2005 | PhD (Neuroscience)
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Mimi Kao

Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

1997 | MA (Regional Studies - East Asia)
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Mimi Kao

Stanford University: Stanford, California, US

1994 | BA (Human Biology and East Asian Studies)
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Mimi Kao

Funding (2)

Investigating Auditory-Motor Interactions During Rhythm Perception in a Small Animal Model

2023-02-01 to 2028-01-31 | Grant
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: R01NS129695
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Developing an animal model to study auditory-motor interactions during rhythm perception

2019-09-15 to 2021-03-14 | Grant
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: R21NS114682
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Mimi Kao via DimensionsWizard

Works (16)

Sex differences in vocal learning ability in songbirds are linked with differences in flexible rhythm pattern perception

Animal Behaviour
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew A. Rouse; Aniruddh D. Patel; Samantha Wainapel; Mimi H. Kao
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Partial inactivation of songbird auditory cortex impairs both tempo and pitch discrimination

Molecular Brain
2023-06-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1756-6606
Contributors: Gunsoo Kim; Miguel Sánchez-Valpuesta; Mimi H. Kao
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Mimi Kao

Music and Brain Circuitry: Strategies for Strengthening Evidence-Based Research for Music-Based Interventions

The Journal of Neuroscience
2022-11-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Wen Grace Chen; John Rehner Iversen; Mimi H. Kao; Psyche Loui; Aniruddh Dhiren Patel; Robert J. Zatorre; Emmeline Edwards
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Within-species differences in vocal production learning in a songbird are associated with differences in flexible rhythm pattern perception

2022-07-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Andrew A. Rouse; Aniruddh D. Patel; Samantha Wainapel; Mimi H. Kao
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Plasticity of stereotyped birdsong driven by chronic manipulation of cortical-basal ganglia activity

Current Biology
2021 | Journal article
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Mimi Kao

Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds (vol 118, e2026130118, 2021)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Rouse, Andrew A.; Patel, Aniruddh D.; Kao, Mimi H.
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Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021-07-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew A. Rouse; Aniruddh D. Patel; Mimi H. Kao
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Variable but not random: temporal pattern coding in a songbird brain area necessary for song modification

Journal of Neurophysiology
2021-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: S. E. Palmer; B. D. Wright; A. J. Doupe; M. H. Kao
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Manipulating the perception of time affects voluntary breath‐holding duration

Physiological Reports
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Hannah J. Vigran; Anna G. Kapral; Eric D. Tytell; Mimi H. Kao
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The Avian Basal Ganglia Are a Source of Rapid Behavioral Variation That Enables Vocal Motor Exploration

The Journal of Neuroscience
2018-11-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
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Mimi Kao

Variability in action: Contributions of a songbird cortical-basal ganglia circuit to vocal motor learning and control

Neuroscience
2015-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0306-4522
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Mimi Kao

Task-related "cortical" bursting depends critically on basal ganglia input and is linked to vocal plasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013-03-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
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Mimi Kao

Neurons in a Forebrain Nucleus Required for Vocal Plasticity Rapidly Switch between Precise Firing and Variable Bursting Depending on Social Context

Journal of Neuroscience
2008-12-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0270-6474
Part of ISSN: 1529-2401
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Mimi Kao

Lesions of an Avian Basal Ganglia Circuit Prevent Context-Dependent Changes to Song Variability

Journal of Neurophysiology
2006-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-3077
Part of ISSN: 1522-1598
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Mimi Kao

Contributions of an avian basal ganglia–forebrain circuit to real-time modulation of song

Nature
2005-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Part of ISSN: 1476-4687
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Mimi Kao

Stress and dominance in a social fish.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
1997-08-01 | Journal article
PMID: 9236253
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Mimi Kao

Peer review (29 reviews for 10 publications/grants)

Review activity for Brain research. (1)
Review activity for Communications biology. (3)
Review activity for eLife (7)
Review activity for ENeuro. (3)
Review activity for Journal of comparative physiology. (1)
Review activity for Nature (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (5)
Review activity for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (1)
Review activity for The journal of neuroscience : (3)
Review activity for The journal of neuroscience : (4)