Keyword

song learning

Description: The acquisition of vocal songs through experience, especially in songbirds; the term may also refer to learning about songs or song-related subjects.

Primary topic: Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (74%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/song-learning

Sexual Dimorphism in Vocal Control Areas of the Songbird Brain

1976 · Fernando Nottebohm, Arthur P. Arnold · Science · 1,109

Characterization of a novel protein regulated during the critical period for song learning in the zebra finch

1995 · Julia M. George, Hui Jin, et al. · Neuron · 844

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Forebrain Lesions Disrupt Development But Not Maintenance of Song in Passerine Birds

1984 · Sarah W. Bottjer, Elizabeth A. Miesner, et al. · Science · 827

The genome of a songbird

2010 · Wesley C. Warren, David F. Clayton, et al. · Nature · 809

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Nature's music: the science of birdsong

2005 · Choice Reviews Online · 786

A Brain for All Seasons: Cyclical Anatomical Changes in Song Control Nuclei of the Canary Brain

1981 · Fernando Nottebohm · Science · 751

The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits

2002 · Diego Gil, Manfred Gahr · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 709

The Learning of Song Patterns by Birds, With Especial Reference to the Song of the Chaffinch Fringilla Coelebs

1958 · W. H. Thorpe · Ibis · 607

Bird song, ecology and speciation

2002 · Hans Slabbekoorn, Thomas B. Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 559

Song "Dialects" in Three Populations of White-Crowned Sparrows

1962 · P. Marler, M. Tamura · Ornithological Applications · 545

Functional aspects of song learning in songbirds

2005 · M BEECHER, E BRENOWITZ · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 522

Birdsong: From Behavior to Neuron

1985 · M Konishi · Annual Review of Neuroscience · 510

Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit

2005 · Bence P Ölveczky, Aaron S Andalman, et al. · PLoS Biology · 503

Acoustic parameters underlying the responses of song-specific neurons in the white-crowned sparrow

1983 · D Margoliash · Journal of Neuroscience · 498

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Dynamics of the Vocal Imitation Process: How a Zebra Finch Learns Its Song

2001 · Ofer Tchernichovski, Partha P. Mitra, et al. · Science · 496

Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis"

2002 · Nowicki S., Searcy W., et al. · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · 481

Song Learning, Early Nutrition and Sexual Selection in Songbirds

1998 · STEPHEN NOWICKI, SUSAN PETERS, et al. · American Zoologist · 473

Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication

2008 · J. F. Prather, S. Peters, et al. · Nature · 463

The Origins of Vocal Learning

1972 · Fernando Nottebohm · The American Naturalist · 452

Incomplete and Inaccurate Vocal Imitation after Knockdown of FoxP2 in Songbird Basal Ganglia Nucleus Area X

2007 · Sebastian Haesler, Christelle Rochefort, et al. · PLoS Biology · 440

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Song development in the zebra finch and other estrildid finches

1969 · Klaus Immelmann · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 429

1989 · Donald E. Kroodsma · Animal Behaviour · 422

Selective impairment of song learning following lesions of a forebrain nucleus in the juvenile zebra finch

1990 · Farida Sohrabji, Ernest J. Nordeen, et al. · Behavioral and Neural Biology · 420

Auditory feedback is necessary for the maintenance of stereotyped song in adult zebra finches

1992 · Kathy W. Nordeen, Ernest J. Nordeen · Behavioral and Neural Biology · 387

Selective Vocal Learning in a Sparrow

1977 · Peter Marler, Susan Peters · Science · 384

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