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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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Vocal learning promotes patterned inhibitory connectivity [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 AbstractSkill learning is instantiated by changes to functional connectivity within premotor circuits, but whether the specificity of learning depends on structured changes to inhibitory circuitry remains unclear. We used slice electrophysiology to measure connectivity changes associated with song learning in the avian analog of primary motor cortex ...
Miller, Mark N +2 more
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Empirical Musicology Review, 2013 Bregman and colleagues describe methods for testing whether horses entrain their actions to an auditory beat. If horses can entrain, does this necessarily imply that there is no causal relationship between vocal learning and entrainment?
Adena Schachner
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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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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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Of mice, birds, and men: the mouse ultrasonic song system has some features similar to humans and song-learning birds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Humans and song-learning birds communicate acoustically using learned vocalizations. The characteristic features of this social communication behavior include vocal control by forebrain motor areas, a direct cortical projection to brainstem vocal motor ...
Gustavo Arriaga +2 more
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Vocal Learning and Auditory-Vocal Feedback [PDF]
, 2016 Vocal learning is usually studied in songbirds and humans, species that can form auditory templates by listening to acoustic models and then learn to vocalize to match the template. Most other species are thought to develop vocalizations without auditory
A Zahavi +134 more
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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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Birds and babies: Ontogeny of vocal learning. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AKuhl PK.
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