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Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The acoustic structure of birdsong is spectrally and temporally complex. Temporal complexity is often investigated in a syntactic framework focusing on the statistical features of symbolic song sequences.
Jeffrey Xing +3 more
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A circular model for song motor control in Serinus canaria [PDF]
, 2015 Song production in songbirds is controlled by a network of nuclei distributed across several brain regions, which drives respiratory and vocal motor systems to generate sound.
Alonso, Rodrigo +4 more
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Biology, 2021 Birdsong is a precisely timed animal behavior. The connectivity of song premotor neural networks has been proposed to underlie the temporal patterns of neuronal activity that control vocal muscle movements during singing.
Pepe Alcami +6 more
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From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir
Humanimalia, 2020 Birdsong is familiar but enigmatic: to some nothing but mechanical “instinct,” but so excessively exuberant that enthusiasts have linked the songs of birds to the development of the aesthetic sense.
Olga Petri, Philip Howell
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Vocal learning promotes patterned inhibitory connectivity. [PDF]
, 2017 Skill learning is instantiated by changes to functional connectivity within premotor circuits, but whether the specificity of learning depends on structured changes to inhibitory circuitry remains unclear.
Brainard, Michael S +2 more
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Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Exchange of vocal signals is an important aspect of animal communication. Although birdsong is the premier model for understanding vocal development, the development of vocal interaction rules in birds and possible parallels to humans have been little ...
Karla D. Rivera-Cáceres +4 more
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Evidence for Teaching in an Australian Songbird
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Song in oscine birds (as in human speech and song) relies upon the rare capacity of vocal learning. Transmission can be vertical, horizontal, or oblique.
Hollis Taylor
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A sensorimotor area (NIf) is required for the production of learned vocalizations [PDF]
, 2011 Sensory feedback is essential for the acquisition of complex motor behaviors, including birdsong. In zebra finches, auditory feedback is relayed to the descending motor pathway primarily through the nucleus interfacialis nidopalii (NIf).
Bence P. Ö, Sharon M. H. Gobes
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Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches
Journal of Avian Biology, 2023 The social and spatial organisation of avian societies is often complex and dynamic with individuals socialising with others in a local population. Although social interactions can readily be described in colonial breeders through the location of nests ...
Hugo Loning +3 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 It has been proposed that social cohesion in gregarious animals is reinforced both by a positive affective state induced by social interactions and by the prevention of a negative state that would be caused by social separation.
Brandon J. Polzin +4 more
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