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Vocal production learning in mammals revisited [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Vocal production learning, the ability to modify the structure of vocalizations as a result of hearing those of others, has been studied extensively in birds but less attention has been given to its occurrence in mammals. We summarize the available evidence for vocal learning in mammals from the last 25 years, updating earlier reviews on the subject ...
Vincent M. Janik, Mirjam Knörnschild
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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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Development of auditory-vocal perceptual skills in songbirds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Songbirds are one of the few groups of animals that learn the sounds used for vocal communication during development. Like humans, songbirds memorize vocal sounds based on auditory experience with vocalizations of adult "tutors", and then use auditory ...
Vanessa C Miller-Sims, Sarah W Bottjer
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Dopaminergic Contributions to Vocal Learning [PDF]
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2016 Although the brain relies on auditory information to calibrate vocal behavior, the neural substrates of vocal learning remain unclear. Here we demonstrate that lesions of the dopaminergic inputs to a basal ganglia nucleus in a songbird species (Bengalese finches,Lonchura striata var.
Lukas A. Hoffmann +4 more
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Vocal Creativity in Elephant Sound Production
Biology, 2021 How do elephants achieve their enormous vocal flexibility when communicating, imitating or creating idiosyncratic sounds? The mechanisms that underpin this trait combine motoric abilities with vocal learning processes.
Angela S. Stoeger +2 more
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Vocal practice regulates singing activity-dependent genes underlying age-independent vocal learning in songbirds. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 The development of highly complex vocal skill, like human language and bird songs, is underlain by learning. Vocal learning, even when occurring in adulthood, is thought to largely depend on a sensitive/critical period during postnatal development, and ...
Shin Hayase +8 more
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Genes and vocal learning [PDF]
Brain and Language, 2010 Could a mutation in a single gene be the evolutionary lynchpin supporting the development of human language? A rare mutation in the molecule known as FOXP2 discovered in a human family seemed to suggest so, and its sequence phylogeny reinforced a Chomskian view that language emerged wholesale in humans.
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Behavior-Based Early Language Development on a Humanoid Robot [PDF]
, 2002 We are exploring the idea that early language acquisition could be better modelled on an artifcial creature by considering the pragmatic aspect of natural language and of its development in human infants.
Varshavskaya, Paulina
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PLoS ONE, 2008 Vocal learning is a critical behavioral substrate for spoken human language. It is a rare trait found in three distantly related groups of birds-songbirds, hummingbirds, and parrots.
Gesa Feenders +8 more
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Molecular Brain, 2021 Songbirds are one of the few animal taxa that possess vocal learning abilities. Different species of songbirds exhibit species-specific learning programs during song acquisition.
Shin Hayase +5 more
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