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Pleasure seeking and birdsong [PDF]

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011
Songbirds sing at high rates within multiple contexts, suggesting that they are highly motivated to communicate and that the act of singing itself may be rewarding. Little is known about the neural regulation of the motivation to communicate. Dopamine and opioid neuropeptides play a primary role in reward seeking and sensory pleasure.
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The effect of isolation, fragmentation, and population bottlenecks on song structure of a Hawaiian honeycreeper

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Little is known about how important social behaviors such as song vary within and among populations for any of the endemic Hawaiian honeycreepers. Habitat loss and non‐native diseases (e.g., avian malaria) have resulted in isolation and fragmentation of ...
Joshua M. Pang‐Ching, Kristina L. Paxton, Eben H. Paxton, Adam A. Pack, Patrick J. Hart   +4 more
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Special Article: From Birdsong to Babel: the canine connection in the origin of human language

Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2013
Whistled languages are still found today in many parts of the world, the most celebrated being Silbo, in the Canary Islands. According to Australian Aboriginal legends, it was the birds who taught human beings how to speak.
Graham Pont
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Listening, in Times of Noise

Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2026.
Li Li
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Increased bird sound diversity in vineyards enhances visitors' tour experience

People and Nature
Biodiversity is rapidly declining, reducing the quantity and quality of human interactions with nature and constraining its contribution to human health and well‐being.
Natalia B. Zielonka, Victoria Tubman, Lynn V. Dicks, Simon J. Butler   +3 more
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Role of the site of synaptic competition and the balance of learning forces for Hebbian encoding of probabilistic Markov sequences

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2015
The majority of distinct sensory and motor events occur as temporally ordered sequences with rich probabilistic structure. Sequences can be characterized by the probability of transitioning from the current state to upcoming states (forward probability),
Kristofer E Bouchard, Surya eGanguli, Michael S. Brainard   +2 more
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Auditory perception and the ecology of human–nature interactions: Effects of hearing loss on listening to birdsong

People and Nature
The human sensory systems are a primary means through which people experience and connect with nature. Understanding and improving people's personalised ecologies—their embodied, sensory interactions with other organisms—is key to addressing the causes ...
Siddharth Unnithan Kumar, Kevin J. Gaston   +1 more
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Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe‐Stephen, and Temporal Experience

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 536-547, September 2026.
Emily Thomas
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Birdsong

, 2020
This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
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Review of "Practical Informatics for Cytopathology"

Journal of Pathology Informatics, 2016
George G Birdsong
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