ArticleCurrent biology : CB2022
Birdsong.
Article in Current biology : CB, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Convergent and divergent neural circuit architectures that support acoustic communication.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Pooled it
- A synaptic locus of song learning.Nature · 2026Article
- Variation in song structure does not predict associative learning performance in zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis) raised under controlled cultural conditions.Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Neuroanatomical organization: the palato-pharyngeal complex as a sensory-motor hub.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2026Review
- Temporal organization of song modulates vocal learning.iScience · 2025Article
- Modified specific components of conspecific advertisement calls influence behavioral and neural responses in music frogs.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Millisecond-scale motor coding precedes sensorimotor learning in songbirds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Model of the HVC neural network as a song motor in zebra finch.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2024Article
- Songbird mesostriatal dopamine pathways are spatially segregated before the onset of vocal learning.PloS one · 2023Article
- Analogies of human speech and bird song: From vocal learning behavior to its neural basis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Have your ever felt as happy as a lark, feathered your nest or taken someone under your wing? As we watch birds, we cannot help but be struck by their uncannily familiar behaviors - singing, nest building, caring for their young - to name just a few. Songbirds - the oscine suborder of perching birds that constitute roughly half (∼4,000) of all known avian species - are noted for the songs that males and sometimes both sexes in this group sing to court mates and defend territory from rivals. Birdsongs contain several to many acoustically distinct syllables, typically organized into a stereotyped phrase, and span the same audio bandwidth that we exploit for speech and music, making them easy for us to hear and appreciate. Consequently, eavesdropping humans long ago detected the most striking parallel between songbirds and humans: juvenile songbirds learn to sing in a manner similar to a child learning to speak.
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