ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2018
Constraints and flexibility during vocal development: Insights from marmoset monkeys.
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- Vocal taking turns is premature at birth and improved by the postnatal phonetic environment in marmosets.National science review · 2025Article
- A convergent interaction engine: vocal communication among marmoset monkeys.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Prenatal development of neonatal vocalizations.eLife · 2022Article
- Self-tuition as an essential design feature of the brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Functionally homologous representation of vocalizations in the auditory cortex of humans and macaques.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- The Origins of Social Knowledge in Altricial Species.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2020Article
- What can animal communication teach us about human language?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Vocal and locomotor coordination develops in association with the autonomic nervous system.eLife · 2019Article
- Vocal development through morphological computation.PLoS biology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Human vocal development is typically conceived as a sequence of two processes-an early maturation phase where vocal sounds change as a function of body growth ("constraints") followed by a period during which social experience can influence vocal sound production ("flexibility"). However, studies of other behaviors (e.g., locomotion) reveal that growth and experience are interactive throughout development. As it turns out, vocal development is not exceptional; it is also the on-going result of the interplay between an infant's growing biological system of production (the body and the nervous system) and experience with caregivers. Here, we review work on developing marmoset monkeys - a species that exhibits strikingly similar vocal developmental processes to those of prelinguistic human infants - that demonstrates how constraints and flexibility are parallel and interactive processes.
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