Song learning in birds: the relation between perception and production
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The vocal control system of oscine songbirds has some perplexing properties--e.g. laterality, adult neurogenesis, neuronal replacement--that are not predicted by common views of how vocal learning takes place. Similarly, we do not understand the relation between the direct pathway for the control of learned song and the recursive pathway necessary for song learning. Some of the paradoxes of the vocal system of birds may disappear once the relation between the perception and production of learned vocalizations is better understood. To some extent, perception and production may be two closely related states of a same system.
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- Authors
- Nottebohm, F., Alvarez-Buylla, A., Cynx, J., Kirn, J., Ling, C.-Y., Nottebohm, M., Suter, R., Tolles, A., & Williams, H.
- Affiliations
- Rockefeller University (US)
- The Rockefeller University Field Research Center, Tyrrel Road, Millbrook, New York 12545, U. S. A.
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1990-08-29
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 1253
- Pages
- 115-124
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- OpenAlex
- W2029685339
- Cited by
- 145
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Keywords
- song learning, vocal learning, perception-production relationship, adult neurogenesis, neuronal replacement, direct pathway, learned vocalizations
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Auditory Perception, Birds, Brain, Learning, Memory, Models, Neurological, Vocalization, Animal
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