My approach to studying the mechanisms for vocal learning and memory uses a combination of song recordings, experimentally controlled song playbacks, in vivo calcium imaging of neural activity, neural manipulations including through pharmacology, and immunohistochemistry. I am interested in the differential roles of the two brain hemispheres for learning and memory, and the mechanisms by which sleep can benefit learning and memory. I am passionate about utilizing the songbird model to address questions related to their unique ability of auditory-vocal learning and manipulations that require fine-scale analysis of behavioural outcomes. Our lab is also collaborating in behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological research in humans, non-vocal learning birds, and mice.