ReviewBehavioural processes2019
The sensitive period for auditory-vocal learning in the zebra finch: Consequences of limited-model availability and multiple-tutor paradigms on song imitation.
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- Beyond the Chicken: Alternative Avian Models for Developmental Physiological Research.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
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- Temporal organization of song modulates vocal learning.iScience · 2025Article
- A Complex Acoustical Environment During Development Enhances Auditory Perception and Coding Efficiency in the Zebra Finch.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- No sensitive period for the development of individual face learning inBehavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2024Article
- A complex acoustical environment during development enhances auditory perception and coding efficiency in the zebra finch.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Hemispheric dominance in HVC is experience-dependent in juvenile male zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Fantastic beasts and how to study them: rethinking experimental animal behavior.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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- Oxytocin receptor antagonism during early vocal learning reduces song preference and imitation in zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Tracing development of song memory with fMRI in zebra finches after a second tutoring experience.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Song preferences predict the quality of vocal learning in zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cross-species conservation in the regulation of parvalbumin by perineuronal nets.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- Expression of oxytocin receptors in the zebra finch brain during vocal development.Developmental neurobiology · 2022Article
- The Role of the Endogenous Opioid System in the Vocal Behavior of Songbirds and Its Possible Role in Vocal Learning.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- Defining the multidimensional phenotype: New opportunities to integrate the behavioral ecology and behavioral neuroscience of vocal learning.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Estrogen and sex-dependent loss of the vocal learning system in female zebra finches.Hormones and behavior · 2021Article
- The impact of learning opportunities on the development of learning and decision-making: an experiment with passerine birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Experience- and Sex-Dependent Intrinsic Plasticity in the Zebra Finch Auditory Cortex during Song Memorization.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, acquire their song during a sensitive period for auditory-vocal learning by imitating conspecific birds. Laboratory studies have shown that the sensitive period for song acquisition covers a developmental phase lasting from 25 to 65days post hatch (dph); formation of auditory memory primarily occurs between 25 and 35dph. The duration of the sensitive period is, however, dependent upon model availability. If a tutor is not available early in development, birds will learn from an adult male introduced to their cage even after they reach 65dph. Birds who are exposed to a second tutor as late as 63dph can successfully adjust their song 'template' to learn a new song model. However, if second-tutor song exposure occurs after 65dph, learning of a new tutor's song will not occur for most individuals. Here, we review the literature as well as novel studies from our own laboratory concerning sensitive periods for auditory memory formation in zebra finches; these behavioral studies indicate that there are developmental constraints on imitative learning in zebra finches.
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