Keyword

vocal learning

Description: A form of learning in which animals acquire or modify vocalizations by imitating sounds, often shaped by social interaction.

Primary topic: Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (75%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1514944

OpenAlex ID: keywords/vocal-learning

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

2014 · Erich D. Jarvis, Siavash Mirarab, et al. · Science · 1,896

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BIRDSONG AND HUMAN SPEECH: Common Themes and Mechanisms

1999 · Allison J. Doupe, Patricia K. Kuhl · Annual Review of Neuroscience · 1,632

A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows.

1970 · Peter Marler · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 957

A comparative study of the behavioral deficits following lesions of various parts of the zebra finch song system: implications for vocal learning

1991 · C Scharff, F Nottebohm · Journal of Neuroscience · 925

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The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production

1998 · Peter F. MacNeilage · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 919

The Role of Auditory Feedback in the Control of Vocalization in the White-Crowned Sparrow 1

1965 · Masakazu Konishi · Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie · 832

Nature's music: the science of birdsong

2005 · Choice Reviews Online · 786

Language and Nature

1995 · NOAM CHOMSKY · Mind · 753

Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech

2003 · Michael H. Goldstein, Andrew P. King, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 672

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots

2000 · Irene M. Pepperberg · 663

Vocal Learning in Mammals

1997 · Vincent M. Janik, Peter J.B. Slater · Advances in the study of behavior · 651

The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective

2006 · W. Tecumseh Fitch · Cognition · 619

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

1958 · W. H. Thorpe · Ibis · 607

What songbirds teach us about learning

2002 · Michael S. Brainard, Allison J. Doupe · Nature · 589

Culturally Transmitted Patterns of Vocal Behavior in Sparrows

1964 · Peter Marler, Miwako Tamura · Science · 586

Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language

2009 · Birgit Mampe, Angela D. Friederici, et al. · Current Biology · 564

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FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

2009 · Simon E. Fisher, Constance Scharff · Trends in Genetics · 543

Why only us: language and evolution

2016 · Choice Reviews Online · 541

The different roles of social learning in vocal communication

2000 · Vincent M. Janik, Peter J.B. Slater · Animal Behaviour · 538

Learned Birdsong and the Neurobiology of Human Language

2004 · ERICH D. JARVIS · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 536

Functional aspects of song learning in songbirds

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

The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis

2014 · Aniruddh D. Patel, John R. Iversen · Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience · 517

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Developmental determinants of structure in zebra finch song.

1979 · Philip H. Price · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 506

Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal

2009 · Aniruddh D. Patel, John R. Iversen, et al. · Current Biology · 497

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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

Works count: 3,823

Citation count: 102,500