ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2015
A rhythm landscape approach to the developmental dynamics of birdsong.
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- Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Arousal elevation drives the development of oscillatory vocal output.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Born to sing! Song development in a singing primate.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Novel ideas to further expand the applicability of rhythm analysis.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Vocal individuality and rhythm in male and female duet contributions of a nonhuman primate.Current zoology · 2020Article
- A Hierarchy of Autonomous Systems for Vocal Production.Trends in neurosciences · 2020Review
- Differential Song Deficits after Lentivirus-Mediated Knockdown of FoxP1, FoxP2, or FoxP4 in Area X of Juvenile Zebra Finches.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Female indris determine the rhythmic structure of the song and sustain a higher cost when the chorus size increases.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Vocal learning in songbirds requires cholinergic signaling in a motor cortex-like nucleus.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Multifractal analysis reveals music-like dynamic structure in songbird rhythms.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Songbirds work around computational complexity by learning song vocabulary independently of sequence.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Vocal development in a Waddington landscape.eLife · 2017Article
- The autonomic nervous system is the engine for vocal development through social feedback.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2016Review
- The Indris Have Got Rhythm! Timing and Pitch Variation of a Primate Song Examined between Sexes and Age Classes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Unlike simple biological rhythms, the rhythm of the oscine bird song is a learned time series of diverse sounds that change dynamically during vocal ontogeny. How to quantify rhythm development is one of the most important challenges in behavioural biology. Here, we propose a simple method, called 'rhythm landscape', to visualize and quantify how rhythm structure, which is measured as durational patterns of sounds and silences, emerges and changes over development. Applying this method to the development of Bengalese finch songs, we show that the rhythm structure begins with a broadband rhythm that develops into diverse rhythms largely through branching from precursors. Furthermore, an information-theoretic measure, the Jensen-Shannon divergence, was used to characterize the crystallization process of birdsong rhythm, which started with a high rate of rhythm change and progressed to a stage of slow refinement. This simple method provides a useful description of rhythm development, thereby helping to reveal key temporal constraints on complex biological rhythms.
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