Results 21 to 30 of about 360,910 (329)
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
doaj +1 more source
Parental developmental experience affects vocal learning in offspring. [PDF]
Sci RepKraft FH +6 more
europepmc +3 more sources
A taxonomy for vocal learning. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 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.
Tyack PL.
europepmc +5 more sources
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
openaire +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
openaire +2 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Vocal Learning: Shaping by Social Reinforcement [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Animals modulate their behavior by interacting with others. Nevertheless, popular theories of vocal learning frequently overlook the role of ongoing social interactions. New research suggests that a social feedback loop between young male zebra finches and adult females guides the process of song learning.
Daniel Y. Takahashi
openalex +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source