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Vocal learning: Beyond the continuum.
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- Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- The evolution of hierarchical structure building capacity for language and music: a bottom-up perspective.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Review
- Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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- 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 Creativity in Elephant Sound Production.Biology · 2021Article
- Constraints on vocal production learning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates).Learning & behavior · 2021Article
- Vocal convergence in a multi-level primate society: insights into the evolution of vocal learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Vocal learning is the ability to modify vocal output on the basis of experience. Traditionally, species have been classified as either displaying or lacking this ability. A recent proposal, the vocal learning continuum, recognizes the need to have a more nuanced view of this phenotype and abandon the yes-no dichotomy. However, it also limits vocal learning to production of novel calls through imitation, moreover subserved by a forebrain-to-phonatory-muscles circuit. We discuss its limitations regarding the characterization of vocal learning across species and argue for a more permissive view.
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