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A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait.
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- Assessing the Role of Vocal Plasticity in Sociospatial Coordination.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Estimating the motor exploration in reinforcement learning.iScience · 2026Article
- Duets convey information about pair and individual identities in a Neotropical bird.Current zoology · 2025Article
- AnFrontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Role of auditory feedback for vocal production learning in the Egyptian fruit bat.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Vocal convergence and social proximity shape the calls of the most basal Passeriformes, New Zealand Wrens.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Do rats (Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Vocal learning-associated convergent evolution in mammalian proteins and regulatory elements.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Sex differences in vocal learning ability in songbirds are linked with differences in flexible rhythm pattern perception.Animal behaviour · 2023Article
- Bats possess the anatomical substrate for a laryngeal motor cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Relating enhancer genetic variation across mammals to complex phenotypes using machine learning.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
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- Prenatal auditory learning in avian vocal learners and non-learners.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Evolving the capacity for socially guided vocal learning in songbirds: a preliminary study.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Vocal learning is a behavioral trait in which the social and acoustic environment shapes the vocal repertoire of individuals. Over the past century, the study of vocal learning has progressed at the intersection of ecology, physiology, neuroscience, molecular biology, genomics, and evolution. Yet, despite the complexity of this trait, vocal learning is frequently described as a binary trait, with species being classified as either vocal learners or vocal non-learners. As a result, studies have largely focused on a handful of species for which strong evidence for vocal learning exists. Recent studies, however, suggest a continuum in vocal learning capacity across taxa. Here, we further suggest that vocal learning is a multi-component behavioral phenotype comprised of distinct yet interconnected modules. Discretizing the vocal learning phenotype into its constituent modules would facilitate integration of findings across a wider diversity of species, taking advantage of the ways in which each excels in a particular module, or in a specific combination of features. Such comparative studies can improve understanding of the mechanisms and evolutionary origins of vocal learning. We propose an initial set of vocal learning modules supported by behavioral and neurobiological data and highlight the need for diversifying the field in order to disentangle the complexity of the vocal learning phenotype.
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