ReviewFrontiers in psychology2023
Analogies of human speech and bird song: From vocal learning behavior to its neural basis.
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- Distress vocalizations ofCurrent zoology · 2026Article
- Cholinergic signaling differentially regulates a vocal motor pallial nucleus to stabilize adult birdsong.Communications biology · 2026Article
- A daily rhythm of cell proliferation in a songbird brain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Visually-guided compensation of deafening-induced song deterioration.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural mechanism of dopamine modulating singing related behavior in songbirds: an updated review.PeerJ · 2025Review
- An affordable solution for investigating zebra finch intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) signals.PloS one · 2025Article
- A versatile pipeline to identify convergently lost ancestral conserved fragments associated with convergent evolution of vocal learning.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Neural Processing without OPhysiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies (Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Hemispheric dominance in HVC is experience-dependent in juvenile male zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Vocal learning is a complex acquired social behavior that has been found only in very few animals. The process of animal vocal learning requires the participation of sensorimotor function. By accepting external auditory input and cooperating with repeated vocal imitation practice, a stable pattern of vocal information output is eventually formed. In parallel evolutionary branches, humans and songbirds share striking similarities in vocal learning behavior. For example, their vocal learning processes involve auditory feedback, complex syntactic structures, and sensitive periods. At the same time, they have evolved the hierarchical structure of special forebrain regions related to vocal motor control and vocal learning, which are organized and closely associated to the auditory cortex. By comparing the location, function, genome, and transcriptome of vocal learning-related brain regions, it was confirmed that songbird singing and human language-related neural control pathways have certain analogy. These common characteristics make songbirds an ideal animal model for studying the neural mechanisms of vocal learning behavior. The neural process of human language learning may be explained through similar neural mechanisms, and it can provide important insights for the treatment of language disorders.
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