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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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Vocal production learning in mammals revisited [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 Abstract 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.
Vincent M. Janik, Mirjam Knörnschild
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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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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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Deep-learning in Identification of Vocal Pathologies
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2020 The work consists in a classification problem of four classes of vocal pathologies using one Deep Neural Network. Three groups of features extracted from speech of subjects with Dysphonia, Vocal Fold Paralysis, Laryngitis Chronica and controls were experimented.
Teixeira, Felipe, Teixeira, João Paulo
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Evidence for Teaching in an Australian Songbird
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Song in oscine birds (as in human speech and song) relies upon the rare capacity of vocal learning. Transmission can be vertical, horizontal, or oblique.
Hollis Taylor
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