ReviewBrain and language2010
Genes and vocal learning.
Review in Brain and language, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alpha-synuclein overexpression reduces neural activity within a basal ganglia vocal nucleus in a zebra finch model.PloS one · 2026Article
- Normative aging results in degradation of gene networks in a zebra finch basal ganglia nucleus dedicated to vocal behavior.Neurobiology of aging · 2025Article
- Analogies of human speech and bird song: From vocal learning behavior to its neural basis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The Role of the Learner in the Cultural Evolution of Vocalizations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Current Approaches and Applications in Avian Genome Editing.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- A High-Quality Genome Assembly of the North American Song Sparrow,G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
- Mechanisms of species diversity in birdsong learning.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- What bats have to say about speech and language.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
- Differential FoxP2 and FoxP1 expression in a vocal learning nucleus of the developing budgerigar.Developmental neurobiology · 2015Article
- Quantitative integration of genetic factors in the learning and production of canary song.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
- Investigation of musicality in birdsong.Hearing research · 2014Review
- Distribution of language-related Cntnap2 protein in neural circuits critical for vocal learning.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2014Article
- miR-9 and miR-140-5p target FoxP2 and are regulated as a function of the social context of singing behavior in zebra finches.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013Article
- Translating birdsong: songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research.Annual review of neuroscience · 2013Review
- First knockdown gene expression in bat (Hipposideros armiger) brain mediated by lentivirus.Molecular biotechnology · 2013Article
- The songbird syrinx morphome: a three-dimensional, high-resolution, interactive morphological map of the zebra finch vocal organ.BMC biology · 2013Article
- Molecular microcircuitry underlies functional specification in a basal ganglia circuit dedicated to vocal learning.Neuron · 2012Article
- Interspecies avian brain chimeras reveal that large brain size differences are influenced by cell-interdependent processes.PloS one · 2012Article
- Evo-devo, deep homology and FoxP2: implications for the evolution of speech and language.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Review
- Food for song: expression of c-Fos and ZENK in the zebra finch song nuclei during food aversion learning.PloS one · 2011Article
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Abstract
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. Spurred by this discovery, research in primates, rodents and birds suggests that FoxP2 and other language-related genes are interactors in the neuromolecular networks that underlie subsystems of language, such symbolic understanding, vocal learning and theory of mind. The whole picture will only come together through comparative and integrative study into how the human language singularity evolved.
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