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Genetic Components of Vocal Learning
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004Abstract: Vocal learning is a rare trait. Humans depend on vocal learning to acquire spoken language, but most species that communicate acoustically have an innate repertoire of sounds that they use for information exchange. Among the few non‐human species that also rely on vocal learning, songbirds have provided by far the most information for ...
Scharff, C., White, S.
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The evolution of vocal learning
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2014Vocal learning, in which animals modify their vocalizations to imitate those of others, has evolved independently in scattered lineages of birds and mammals. Comparative evidence supports two hypotheses for the selective advantages leading to the origin of vocal learning.
Stephen, Nowicki, William A, Searcy
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Cetacean vocal learning and communication
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2014The cetaceans are one of the few mammalian clades capable of vocal production learning. Evidence for this comes from synchronous changes in song patterns of baleen whales and experimental work on toothed whales in captivity. While baleen whales like many vocal learners use this skill in song displays that are involved in sexual selection, toothed ...
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Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication
Nature, 2008Brain mechanisms for communication must establish a correspondence between sensory and motor codes used to represent the signal. One idea is that this correspondence is established at the level of single neurons that are active when the individual performs a particular gesture or observes a similar gesture performed by another individual.
J F, Prather +3 more
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Vocal learning in birds and humans
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2003AbstractVocal learning is the modification of vocal output by reference to auditory information. It allows for the imitation and improvisation of sounds that otherwise would not occur. The emergence of this skill may have been a primary step in the evolution of human language, but vocal learning is not unique to humans.
Linda, Wilbrecht, Fernando, Nottebohm
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Vocal production learning in bats
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2014(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
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Selective Vocal Learning in a Sparrow
Science, 1977Male swamp sparrows learn their songs; they fail to learn songs of the sympatric song sparrow. Syllables from tape recordings of both species of sparrow were spliced into an array of swamp sparrow-like and song sparrow-like temporal patterns. Swamp sparrows learned only those songs made of swamp sparrow syllables.
P, Marler, S, Peters
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1997
INTRODUCTION Marine mammals stand out among nonhuman mammals in their abilities to modify their vocalizations on the basis of auditory experience. While there is good evidence that terrestrial mammals learn to comprehend and use their calls correctly, there is much less evidence for modification of vocal production (Seyfarth & Cheney, Chapter 13). In
Peter L. Tyack, Laela S. Sayigh
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INTRODUCTION Marine mammals stand out among nonhuman mammals in their abilities to modify their vocalizations on the basis of auditory experience. While there is good evidence that terrestrial mammals learn to comprehend and use their calls correctly, there is much less evidence for modification of vocal production (Seyfarth & Cheney, Chapter 13). In
Peter L. Tyack, Laela S. Sayigh
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Vocal Learning in Nonhuman Primates: Importance of Vocal Contexts
2008Humans acquire languages indeed naturally. Although newborn infants can not speak anything, they acquire normal speech by hearing adults’ conversations without some explicit training. Human infants learn a language which they are exposed to in childhood.
Chieko Yamaguchi, Akihiro Izumi
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Vocal functional flexibility in a nonprimate vocal learning species
Journal of Language EvolutionAbstract Can nonhuman animals use the same acoustic signal to transmit different illocutions on different occasions? This communicative capacity is known as vocal functional flexibility and occurs, for example, in speech, when a sentence serves different illocutionary forces or functions on different occasions based on changes to visual ...
Francisco R Magdaleno +2 more
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