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ArticleBiology letters2018

Ability to modulate birdsong across social contexts develops without imitative social learning.

Logan S James, Jennifer B Dai, Jon T Sakata

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Article in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Logan S JamesDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1 logansmithjames@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9600-4473
Jennifer B DaiNeuroscience Program, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1.
Jon T SakataDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1.
McGill University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many important behaviours are socially learned. For example, the acoustic structure of courtship songs in songbirds is learned by listening to and interacting with conspecifics during a sensitive period in development. Signallers modify the spectral and temporal structures of their vocalizations depending on the social context, but the degree to which this modulation requires imitative social learning remains unknown. We found that male zebra finches (

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Imitative BehaviorLearningSocial BehaviorVocalization, AnimalAnimalsFinchesMaleSocial LearningSongbirdsbehavioural developmentcourtshipsongbirdvocal controlvocal flexibilityzebra finch

Identifiers

PMID29540565
PMCPMC5897611
OpenAlexW2791789278

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