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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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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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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Specialized motor-driven dusp1 expression in the song systems of multiple lineages of vocal learning birds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Mechanisms for the evolution of convergent behavioral traits are largely unknown. Vocal learning is one such trait that evolved multiple times and is necessary in humans for the acquisition of spoken language.
Haruhito Horita +5 more
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A hypothesis on improving foreign accents by optimizing variability in vocal learning brain circuits [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 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
Anna J Simmonds
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FoxP2 isoforms delineate spatiotemporal transcriptional networks for vocal learning in the zebra finch [PDF]
eLife, 2018 Human speech is one of the few examples of vocal learning among mammals yet ~half of avian species exhibit this ability. Its neurogenetic basis is largely unknown beyond a shared requirement for FoxP2 in both humans and zebra finches.
Zachary Daniel Burkett +7 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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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: 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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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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