eLife, 2021 Increases in the scale and complexity of behavioral data pose an increasing challenge for data analysis. A common strategy involves replacing entire behaviors with small numbers of handpicked, domain-specific features, but this approach suffers from ...
Jack Goffinet +3 more
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Vocal Tract Articulation in Zebra Finches
PLoS ONE, 2010 Birdsong and human vocal communication are both complex behaviours which show striking similarities mainly thought to be present in the area of development and learning. Recent studies, however, suggest that there are also parallels in vocal production mechanisms.
Ohms, V.R. +3 more
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Maternal gut microbes shape the early-life assembly of gut microbiota in passerine chicks via nests
Microbiome, 2020 Background Knowledge is growing on how gut microbiota are established, but the effects of maternal symbiotic microbes throughout early microbial successions in birds remain elusive.
Cheng-Yu Chen +6 more
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Parental influence on begging call structure in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): evidence of early vocal plasticity [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Begging calls are signals of need used by young birds to elicit care from adults. Different theoretical frameworks have been proposed to understand this parent–offspring communication. But relationships between parental response and begging intensity, or
Avelyne S. Villain +3 more
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A daily oscillation in the fundamental frequency and amplitude of harmonic syllables of zebra finch song. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Complex motor skills are more difficult to perform at certain points in the day (for example, shortly after waking), but the daily trajectory of motor-skill error is more difficult to predict.
William E Wood +3 more
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Auditory processing in the zebra finch midbrain: single unit responses and effect of rearing experience [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 In birds the auditory system plays a key role in providing the sensory input used to discriminate between conspecific and heterospecific vocal signals. In those species that are known to learn their vocalizations, for example, songbirds, it is generally ...
Priscilla Logerot +3 more
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THE GENETIC BASIS OF ZEBRA FINCH VOCALIZATIONS [PDF]
Evolution, 2009 Animal vocalizations play an important role in individual recognition, kin recognition, species recognition, and sexual selection. Despite much work in these fields done on birds virtually nothing is known about the heritability of vocal traits in birds.
Forstmeier, Wolfgang +3 more
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A fast and accurate zebra finch syllable detector. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The song of the adult male zebra finch is strikingly stereotyped. Efforts to understand motor output, pattern generation, and learning have taken advantage of this consistency by investigating the bird's ability to modify specific parts of song under ...
Ben Pearre +3 more
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The potential role of Arhgef33 RhoGEF in foveal development in the zebra finch retina
Scientific Reports, 2020 The fovea is a pit formed in the center of the retina that enables high-acuity vision in certain vertebrate species. While formation of the fovea fascinates many researchers, the molecular mechanisms underlying foveal development are poorly understood ...
Takefumi Sugiyama +8 more
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Resurgent Na+ currents promote ultrafast spiking in projection neurons that drive fine motor control
Nature Communications, 2021 The zebra finch robust nucleus of the arcopallium (RA) directs singing by providing descending projections to brainstem motor neurons. The authors show that electrophysiological characteristics of RA neurons rely on resurgent Na+ currents that emerge ...
Benjamin M. Zemel +5 more
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