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ArticleContemporary physics2013

The Physics of Birdsong Production.

G B Mindlin

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Article in Contemporary physics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Timing of Speech in Brain and Glottis and the Feedback Delay Problem in Motor Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  2. Transitions and tricks: nonlinear phenomena in the avian voice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  4. High-fidelity continuum modeling predicts avian voiced sound production.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

G B MindlinDepartment of Physics, FCEyN, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Funding

Mechanisms for producing complex sounds R01DC006876 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI GOLLER, FRANZ · 2005 to 2014
$2.5M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human babies need to learn how to talk. The need of a tutor to achieve acceptable vocalizations is a feature that we share with a few species in the animal kingdom. Among those are Songbirds, which account for nearly half of the known bird species. For that reason, Songbirds have become an ideal animal model to study how a brain reconfigures itself during the process of learning a complex task. In the last years, neuroscientists have invested important resources in order to unveil the neural architecture involved in birdsong production and learning. Yet, behavior emerges from the interaction between a nervous system, a peripheral biomechanical architecture and environment, and therefore its study should be just as integrated. In particular, the physical study of the avian vocal organ can help to elucidate which features found in the song of birds are under direct control of specific neural instructions and which emerge from the biomechanics involved in its generation. This work describes recent advances in the study of the physics of birdsong production.

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PMCPMC3923535

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