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Unsupervised discovery of temporal sequences in high-dimensional datasets, with applications to neuroscience. [PDF]
, 2019 Identifying low-dimensional features that describe large-scale neural recordings is a major challenge in neuroscience. Repeated temporal patterns (sequences) are thought to be a salient feature of neural dynamics, but are not succinctly captured by ...
Bahle, Andrew H +6 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Renewable energy is vital for reducing carbon emissions and yet its infrastructure poses challenges to biodiversity. While the impacts of wind power on bats and raptors are well‐studied, the effects on elusive species remain largely unknown. The Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola, a nocturnal forest bird, performs characteristic courtship flights at ...
Jan O. Engler +6 more
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eLife, 2018 Excitatory and inhibitory synapses are the brain’s most abundant synapse types. However, little is known about their formation during critical periods of motor skill learning, when sensory experience defines a motor target that animals strive to imitate.
Ziqiang Huang +4 more
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DNA metabarcoding reveals wolf dietary patterns in the northern Alps and Jura Mountains
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Understanding predator–prey interactions is crucial for wildlife management and human–wildlife coexistence, particularly in multi‐use landscapes such as western Europe. As wolves Canis lupus recolonize their former habitats, knowledge of their diet is essential for conservation, management and public acceptance.
Florin Kunz +6 more
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Lesions in a songbird vocal circuit increase variability in song syntax
eLifeComplex skills like speech and dance are composed of ordered sequences of simpler elements, but the neuronal basis for the syntactic ordering of actions is poorly understood.
Avani Koparkar +5 more
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A hypothesis on improving foreign accents by optimizing variability in vocal learning brain circuits [PDF]
, 2015 Rapid vocal motor learning is observed when acquiring a language in early childhood, or learning to speak another language later in life. Accurate pronunciation is one of the hardest things for late learners to master and they are almost always left with
Simmonds, AJ
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Evaluation of drones as a tool for multi‐species nest surveys on linear rights‐of‐way
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.This paper examines the use of drones with infrared cameras as a tool in the detection of bird nests on linear rights‐of‐way, in comparison to standard ground‐based nest surveys. Abstract The varying application of drone use in wildlife research has expanded in recent years. With the ability to utilize a variety of different sensors (e.g., infrared [IR]
Kirsten E. Pearson +5 more
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Bird singing contests: Looking back on thirty years of research on a global conservation concern
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Keeping wild birds is a deeply engrained and widely prevalent cultural practice, with a history going back thousands of years. One of the more recent trends to emerge from this practice is the singing contest, which pits male birds against each other to ...
Benjamin H. Mirin, Holger Klinck
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Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech. [PDF]
, 2019 Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential structure of nonhuman communication is thought to follow non-hierarchical Markovian dynamics ...
Gentner, Timothy Q +3 more
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Shifting Syllable Production in an Ex Situ Population of a Critically Endangered Songbird
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.Bali mynas produced songs containing more syllables under increased anthropogenic disturbance. ABSTRACT Singing is an ecologically important behaviour for songbirds. Syllables function as the building blocks of birdsong, so changes to their production will have implications for overall song structure.
Oliver Jepson +3 more
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