ArticleeLife2021
Songbirds can learn flexible contextual control over syllable sequencing.
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- Context-dependent modulations in zebra finch distance calls revealed by a novel goal-directed vocalization paradigm.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Social context affects sequence modification learning in birdsong.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Goal-directed and flexible modulation of syllable sequence within birdsong.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
The flexible control of sequential behavior is a fundamental aspect of speech, enabling endless reordering of a limited set of learned vocal elements (syllables or words). Songbirds are phylogenetically distant from humans but share both the capacity for vocal learning and neural circuitry for vocal control that includes direct pallial-brainstem projections. Based on these similarities, we hypothesized that songbirds might likewise be able to learn flexible, moment-by-moment control over vocalizations. Here, we demonstrate that Bengalese finches (
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