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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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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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Mirror neurons, birdsong and human language: a hypothesis
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2012 The Mirror System Hypothesis (MSH) and investigations of birdsong are reviewed in relation to the significance for the development of human symbolic and language capacity, in terms of three fundamental forms of cognitive reference: iconic, indexical, and
Florence eLevy
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Birdsong: Not all contest but also cooperation?
Current Biology, 2023 Birdsong generally functions to defend territories from same-sex competitors and to attract mates. Wild zebra finch males now are shown to sing prolifically outside the breeding season and without defending territories, suggesting potential social functions for birdsong beyond competition.
Riebel, K., Langmore, N.E.
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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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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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The evolution of birdsong on islands [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2013 AbstractIslands are simplified, isolated ecosystems, providing an ideal set‐up to study evolution. Among several traits that are expected to change on islands, an interesting but poorly understood example concerns signals used in animal communication.
Morinay, Jennifer +3 more
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On the representation of hierarchical structure: Revisiting Darwin’s musical protolanguage
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 In this article, we address the tenability of Darwin’s musical protolanguage, arguing that a more compelling evolutionary scenario is one where a prosodic protolanguage is taken to be the preliminary step to represent the hierarchy involved in linguistic
Shigeru Miyagawa +3 more
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