ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
Sound sequences in birdsong: how much do birds really care?
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- Beyond the Chicken: Alternative Avian Models for Developmental Physiological Research.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
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- Detection of Individual Differences Encoded in Sequential Variations of Elements in Zebra Finch Songs.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Assessing female call responses to syllable level details in song.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Network analysis reveals context-dependent structural complexity of social calls in serrate-legged small treefrogs.Current zoology · 2024Article
- The use of artificial songs to assess song recognition in imprinted female songbirds: a concept proposal.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Novel sound exposure drives dynamic changes in auditory lateralization that are associated with perceptual learning in zebra finches.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) demonstrate cognitive flexibility in using phonology and sequence of syllables in auditory discrimination.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Male song of the Aquatic Warbler, a promiscuous bird without paternal care, is more complex than previously thought.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Multi-level combinatoriality in magpie non-song vocalizations.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Vocal learning in songbirds: the role of syllable order in song recognition.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Discrimination of natural acoustic variation in vocal signals.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Evidence for Teaching in an Australian Songbird.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- What can animal communication teach us about human language?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Shifting Syllable Production in an Ex Situ Population of a Critically Endangered Songbird.Zoo biologyArticle
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The complex and melodic nature of many birds' songs has raised interest in potential parallels between avian vocal sequences and human speech. The similarities between birdsong and speech in production and learning are well established, but surprisingly little is known about how birds perceive song sequences. One popular laboratory songbird, the zebra finch (
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