ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2017
A hypothesis on a role of oxytocin in the social mechanisms of speech and vocal learning.
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- Tapping into the vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- A journey from speech to dance through the field of oxytocin.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Maternal Voice and Tactile Stimulation Modulate Oxytocin in Mothers of Hospitalized Preterm Infants: A Randomized Crossover Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Oxytocin receptor antagonism during early vocal learning reduces song preference and imitation in zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Song preferences predict the quality of vocal learning in zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Testosterone, oxytocin and co-operation: A hypothesis for the origin and function of music.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The neural distribution of the avian homologue of oxytocin, mesotocin, in two songbird species, the zebra finch and the canary: A potential role in song perception and production.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2022Article
- Oxytocin and vasotocin receptor variation and the evolution of human prosociality.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Article
- Oxytocin-like receptor expression in evolutionarily conserved nodes of a vocal network associated with male courtship in a teleost fish.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2022Article
- Oxytocin variation and brain region-specific gene expression in a domesticated avian species.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Oxytocin and love: Myths, metaphors and mysteries.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- Expression of oxytocin receptors in the zebra finch brain during vocal development.Developmental neurobiology · 2022Article
- Maternal speech decreases pain scores and increases oxytocin levels in preterm infants during painful procedures.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Vocal Creativity in Elephant Sound Production.Biology · 2021Article
- Learning in the time of COVID: insights from the zebra finch - a social vocal-learner.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- The promiscuity of the oxytocin-vasopressin systems and their involvement in autism spectrum disorder.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2021Review
- The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Language acquisition in humans and song learning in songbirds naturally happen as a social learning experience, providing an excellent opportunity to reveal social motivation and reward mechanisms that boost sensorimotor learning. Our knowledge about the molecules and circuits that control these social mechanisms for vocal learning and language is limited. Here we propose a hypothesis of a role for oxytocin (OT) in the social motivation and evolution of vocal learning and language. Building upon existing evidence, we suggest specific neural pathways and mechanisms through which OT might modulate vocal learning circuits in specific developmental stages.
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