ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
Finding the Beat: From Socially Coordinated Vocalizations in Songbirds to Rhythmic Entrainment in Humans.
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- Humans, but not zebra finches, produce spontaneously isochronous song through the lifespan.iScience · 2026Article
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- Evidence of self-care tooling and phylogenetic modeling reveal parrot tool use is not rare.iScience · 2025Article
- A Cortico-Striatal Circuit for Sound-Triggered Prediction of Reward Timing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Sensory substitution reveals a manipulation bias.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Psychology Meets Archaeology: Psychoarchaeoacoustics for Understanding Ancient Minds and Their Relationship to the Sacred.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait.Neuron · 2019Review
- Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
- Neural activity associated with rhythmicity of song in juvenile male and female zebra finches.Behavioural processes · 2019Article
- Tool-assisted rhythmic drumming in palm cockatoos shares key elements of human instrumental music.Science advances · 2017Article
- Preface to the Special Issue on Animal Music Perception.Comparative cognition & behavior reviews · 2017Article
- Zebra Finches As a Model Species to Understand the Roots of Rhythm.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
- What Pinnipeds Have to Say about Human Speech, Music, and the Evolution of Rhythm.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Humans and oscine songbirds share the rare capacity for vocal learning. Songbirds have the ability to acquire songs and calls of various rhythms through imitation. In several species, birds can even coordinate the timing of their vocalizations with other individuals in duets that are synchronized with millisecond-accuracy. It is not known, however, if songbirds can perceive rhythms holistically nor if they are capable of spontaneous entrainment to complex rhythms, in a manner similar to humans. Here we review emerging evidence from studies of rhythm generation and vocal coordination across songbirds and humans. In particular, recently developed experimental methods have revealed neural mechanisms underlying the temporal structure of song and have allowed us to test birds' abilities to predict the timing of rhythmic social signals. Surprisingly, zebra finches can readily learn to anticipate the calls of a "vocal robot" partner and alter the timing of their answers to avoid jamming, even in reference to complex rhythmic patterns. This capacity resembles, to some extent, human predictive motor response to an external beat. In songbirds, this is driven, at least in part, by the forebrain song system, which controls song timing and is essential for vocal learning. Building upon previous evidence for spontaneous entrainment in human and non-human vocal learners, we propose a comparative framework for future studies aimed at identifying shared mechanism of rhythm production and perception across songbirds and humans.
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