The Role of Auditory Feedback in Birdsong
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A bstract : Young songbirds memorize a tutor song and use the memory trace as a template to shape their own song by auditory feedback. Major issues in birdsong research include the neural sites and mechanisms for song memory and auditory feedback. The brain song control system contains neurons with both premotor and auditory function. Yet no evidence so far shows that they respond to the bird's own song during singing. Also, no neurons have been found to respond to perturbation of auditory feedback in the brain area that is thought to be involved in the feedback control of song. The phenomenon of gating in which neurons respond to playback of the bird's own song only during sleep or under anesthesia is the sole known evidence for control of auditory input to the song system. It is, however, not known whether the gating is involved in switching between the premotor and auditory function of neurons in the song control system.
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Song learning has been conceptualized as a two-stage process: first acquiring a sensory template of the tutored song, then gradually learning to imitate it, with auditory feedback essential for imitation.
“Song learning has been conceptualized as a two-stage process (660, 661): first, the bird acquires a sensory model (”
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- Authors
- KONISHI, M.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- KONISHI, MASAKAZU
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-06
- Volume
- 1016
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 463-475
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W2069189016
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH055984, MH55984)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Keywords
- bird song, auditory feedback, song memory, song control system, song learning, tutor song, premotor neurons, auditory neurons, gating
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Feedback, Hearing, Memory, Neural Pathways, Vocalization, Animal, Prosencephalon, Songbirds
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