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Vocal learning: Beyond the continuum. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2020 Vocal learning is the ability to modify vocal output on the basis of experience. Traditionally, species have been classified as either displaying or lacking this ability. A recent proposal, the vocal learning continuum, recognizes the need to have a more
Pedro Tiago Martins, Cedric Boeckx
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Examining the capability for rhythmic synchronization and music production in vocal learning parrot species [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Vocal production learning and beat perception and synchronization (BPS) share some common characteristics, which makes the vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis (VLH) a reasonable explanation for the evolution of the capability for ...
Yoshimasa Seki
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Analogies of human speech and bird song: From vocal learning behavior to its neural basis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Vocal learning is a complex acquired social behavior that has been found only in very few animals. The process of animal vocal learning requires the participation of sensorimotor function.
Yutao Zhang +4 more
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Shared mechanisms of auditory and non-auditory vocal learning in the songbird brain [PDF]
eLife, 2022 Songbirds and humans share the ability to adaptively modify their vocalizations based on sensory feedback. Prior studies have focused primarily on the role that auditory feedback plays in shaping vocal output throughout life.
James N McGregor +5 more
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Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Some animal vocalizations develop reliably in the absence of relevant experience, but an intriguing subset of animal vocalizations is learned: they require acoustic models during ontogeny in order to develop, and the learner's vocal output reflects those models. To what extent do such learned vocalizations reflect phylogeny?
Arato J, Fitch WT.
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Vocal usage learning and vocal comprehension learning in harbor seals
BMC NeuroscienceBackground Which mammals show vocal learning abilities, e.g., can learn new sounds, or learn to use sounds in new contexts? Vocal usage and comprehension learning are submodules of vocal learning.
Diandra Duengen +2 more
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Persistent vocal learning in an aging open-ended learner reflected in neural FoxP2 expression [PDF]
BMC NeuroscienceBackground Most vocal learning species exhibit an early critical period during which their vocal control neural circuitry facilitates the acquisition of new vocalizations.
Bushra Moussaoui +3 more
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The many functions of vocal learning. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 The capacity to learn novel vocalizations has evolved convergently in a wide range of species. Courtship songs of male birds or whales are often treated as prototypical examples, implying a sexually selected context for the evolution of this ability. However, functions of learned vocalizations in different species are far more diverse than courtship ...
Carouso-Peck S, Goldstein MH, Fitch WT.
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Sex chromosome gene expression associated with vocal learning following hormonal manipulation in female zebra finches [PDF]
eLifeZebra finches are sexually dimorphic vocal learners. Males learn to sing by imitating mature conspecifics, but females do not. Absence of song in females is associated with partial atrophy and apparent repression of several vocal learning brain regions ...
Matthew Davenport +3 more
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A taxonomy for vocal learning. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 Humans and songbirds learn to sing or speak by listening to acoustic models, forming auditory templates, and then learning to produce vocalizations that match the templates. These taxa have evolved specialized telencephalic pathways to accomplish this complex form of vocal learning, which has been reported for very few other taxa.
Tyack PL.
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