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ArticleScientific reports2018

Recurrent development of song idiosyncrasy without auditory inputs in the canary, an open-ended vocal learner.

Chihiro Mori, Wan-Chun Liu, Kazuhiro Wada

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Chihiro MoriGraduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Wan-Chun LiuDepartment of Psychology, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA.
Kazuhiro WadaGraduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. wada@sci.hokudai.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0001-8137-9144

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Abstract

Complex learned behaviors, like bird song and human speech, develop under the influence of both genetic and environmental factors. Accordingly, learned behaviors comprise species specificity and individual variability. Auditory information plays a critical role in vocal learning by songbirds, both to memorize tutor songs and to monitor own vocalizations. Nevertheless, audition-deprived songbirds develop structured, species-specific song patterns. It remains to be elucidated how the auditory input contributes to the development of individual variability of song characteristics. Here we show that an open-ended vocal learner, the canary, annually recapitulates individually unique songs without audition. Although the total number of syllable types was reduced by auditory deprivation, other vocal phenotypes examined in the syllable, phrase, and syntax of songs were conserved between the 1

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AnimalsAuditory PerceptionCanariesMemoryVocalization, Animal

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PMID29880843
PMCPMC5992164

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