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Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Abstract 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.
József Arato, W Tecumseh Fitch
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A taxonomy for vocal learning [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 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.
Peter L Tyack
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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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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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The many functions of vocal learning. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Abstract 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.
Carouso-Peck S, Goldstein MH, Fitch WT.
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The role of vocal learning in call acquisition of wild grey seal pups [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Amanda L Stansbury, Vincent M Janik
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Birds and babies: Ontogeny of vocal learning. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AKuhl PK.
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An Automated Approach to the Quantitation of Vocalizations and Vocal Learning in the Songbird [PDF]
PLOS Computational Biology, 2017 Abstract Studies of learning mechanisms critically depend on the ability to accurately assess learning outcomes. This assessment can be impeded by the often complex, multidimensional nature of behavior. We present a novel, automated approach to evaluating imitative learning that is founded in information theory.
Mets, David G., Brainard, Michael S.
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Variable food begging calls are harbingers of vocal learning. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Vocal learning has evolved in only a few groups of mammals and birds. The developmental and evolutionary origins of vocal learning remain unclear. The imitation of a memorized sound is a clear example of vocal learning, but is that when vocal learning ...
Wan-chun Liu +2 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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