ReviewBiology letters2015
A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains to genomes.
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- Divergence in expression of a singing-related neuroplasticity gene in the brains of 2 Ficedula flycatchers and their hybrids.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- Prenatal auditory learning in avian vocal learners and non-learners.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Mechanisms of species diversity in birdsong learning.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Intraspecific variation in cue-specific learning in sticklebacks.Animal behaviour · 2018Article
- Prenatal environment affects embryonic response to song.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Song discrimination by nestling collared flycatchers during early development.Biology letters · 2016Article
- A test of the mechanistic process behind the convergent agonistic character displacement hypothesis.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Memorizing and producing complex strings of sound are requirements for spoken human language. We share these behaviours with likely more than 4000 species of songbirds, making birds our primary model for studying the cognitive basis of vocal learning and, more generally, an important model for how memories are encoded in the brain. In songbirds, as in humans, the sounds that a juvenile learns later in life depend on auditory memories formed early in development. Experiments on a wide variety of songbird species suggest that the formation and lability of these auditory memories, in turn, depend on auditory predispositions that stimulate learning when a juvenile hears relevant, species-typical sounds. We review evidence that variation in key features of these auditory predispositions are determined by variation in genes underlying the development of the auditory system. We argue that increased investigation of the neuronal basis of auditory predispositions expressed early in life in combination with modern comparative genomic approaches may provide insights into the evolution of vocal learning.
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