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Sep 14, 2023 · Birds are well known for their vocalizations. Although many people think of these sounds as instinctual, in fact, a great many bird species are flexible, vocal learners, a trait humans also have that is critical for our language development and is linked to complex cognition.
Sep 14, 2023 · The best avian vocal learners, such as crows and parrots, also tend to be considered the most intelligent birds. So it’s natural to think that the two traits could be linked. But studies with ...
Sep 14, 2023 · The majority of species in this avian suborder possess the vocal learning ability. They thrive on every continent except Antarctica. “Of all the bird species in the world, songbirds make up half ...
Sep 14, 2023 · To determine whether vocal learning is linked to different cognitive abilities in songbirds, Audet and colleagues spent three years catching hundreds of wild birds from 21 species in mist nets at ...
May 16, 2002 · This conclusion seems especially plausible as many animals that are not vocal learners, including some birds, are nevertheless capable of perceptual learning. Perceptual learning, including that ...
- Michael S. Brainard, Allison J. Doupe
- 2002
Sep 14, 2023 · Only a handful of animal groups are capable of complex vocal learning, roughly defined as the ability to learn and retain a large number of sounds. Humans, elephants, whales, seals, and bats represent most mammalian vocal learners; songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds cover the birds.
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Sep 6, 2021 · Vocal learning birds also show novel connectivity between auditory and vocal learning nuclei , as well as connectivity between song motor regions and ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons that provide reinforcement signals contingent on auditory feedback to guide learning [166–169]. Such auditory–vocal integration circuits may link the perception of a model sound to the programming ...
