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.
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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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The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Abstract How learning affects vocalizations is a key question in the study of animal communication and human language. Parallel efforts in birds and humans have taught us much about how vocal learning works on a behavioural and neurobiological level. Subsequent efforts have revealed a variety of cases among mammals in which experience
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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.
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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.
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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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Vocal Learning Versus Speech Evolution: Untangling a False Equivalence [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe evolution of speech remains one of the most profound and unresolved questions in science. Despite significant advancements in comparative research, key assumptions about the evolutionary precursors of speech continue to be accepted with minimal ...
Adriano R. Lameira
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A Call to Expand Avian Vocal Development Research
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Birds are our best models to understand vocal learning – a vocal production ability guided by auditory feedback, which includes human language. Among all vocal learners, songbirds have the most diverse life histories, and some aspects of their vocal ...
Yen Yi Loo, Kristal E. Cain
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A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Andrea Ravignani, Maxime Garcia
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