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Title The neuroethology of birdsong / Jon T. Sakata, Sarah C. Woolley, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Series Springer Handbook of Auditory Research Ser. ; v. 71
Springer handbook of auditory research ; v. 71.
Contents Intro -- The Acoustical Society of America -- Series Preface -- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research -- Preface 1992 -- Volume Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Scaling the Levels of Birdsong Analysis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Songbirds as Models for Human Speech -- 1.3 Defining Song Learning -- 1.3.1 Requirements of Song Learning: Sensory and Sensorimotor Learning -- 1.3.2 Oscine Versus Suboscines -- 1.3.3 Types of Vocal Plasticity -- 1.3.4 Evidence for and Against Vocal Learning in Other Species -- 1.3.5 Relationship to Visual Imprinting
1.4 Diversity of Song-Learning Strategies -- 1.4.1 Variation in the Timing of Song Learning -- 1.4.1.1 Open-Ended Versus Close-Ended Learning and Critical Periods for Song Learning -- 1.4.1.2 Overlap of Sensory and Sensorimotor Periods -- 1.4.1.3 Variation in Reliance on Sensory Learning -- 1.4.2 Variation in the Extent of Song Learning -- 1.4.2.1 Variation in Song Repertoires -- 1.4.2.2 Variation in the Breadth of Acoustic Elements that Can be Learned -- 1.4.3 Variation in the Dependence of Song Learning on Social Interactions
1.5 Allison Doupe as a Seminal Figure in the Study of the Neural Basis of Birdsong -- 1.6 Overview of Chapters and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds -- 2.1 Songbirds as a Model to Reveal Neural Mechanisms Underlying Vocal Learning -- 2.1.1 Critical Periods for Song Learning -- 2.1.2 Neural Circuitry for Song Learning, Production, and Perception -- 2.2 Mechanisms Underlying the Sensory Learning of Song -- 2.2.1 Neural Circuits for the Sensory Learning of Song
2.2.2 Neural Mechanisms Underlying Timing of the Critical Period for Sensory Learning -- 2.3 Mechanisms Underlying the Sensorimotor Learning of Song -- 2.3.1 Neural Circuits for the Sensorimotor Learning of Song -- 2.3.2 Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Timing of the Critical Period for Sensorimotor Learning -- 2.4 Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Song Learning -- 2.4.1 Mechanisms Underlying Social Influences on Vocal Learning -- 2.4.2 Mechanisms Underlying Biological Predispositions in Learning -- 2.5 New Perspectives and Directions for the Study of Vocal Learning in Songbirds
2.6 Chapter Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: New Insights into the Avian Song System and Neuronal Control of Learned Vocalizations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Historical Perspective -- 3.2.1 The Canonical Song System -- 3.2.2 Composition of the Song System and Functions of Specific Components -- 3.3 New Insights Into the Function of Sites in the Canonical Song System -- 3.3.1 Role of HVC in Imitative Learning -- 3.3.2 Activity of HVC During Singing -- 3.3.3 Function of the Vocal Motor Pathway in Singing -- 3.3.4 Neural Basis of Vocal Sequencing
Summary This volume provides comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and underscores the importance of birdsong research to behavioral and systems neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biomedical research. Scaling the Levels of Birdsong Analysis Jon T. Sakata and Sarah C. Woolley Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds Jon T. Sakata and Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama New Insights into the Avian Song System and Neuronal Control of Learned Vocalizations Karagh Murphy, Koedi S. Lawley, Perry Smith, and Jonathan F. Prather The Song Circuit as a Model of Basal Ganglia Function Arthur Leblois and David J. Perkel Integrating Form and Function in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain Sarah C. Woolley and Sarah M.N. Woolley Hormonal Regulation of Avian Auditory Processing Luke Remage-Healey The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication in Songbirds: Production and Perception of a Call Repertoire Julie E. Elie and Frédéric E. Theunissen Linking Features of Genomic Function to Fundamental Features of Learned Vocal Communication Sarah E. London Vocal Performance in Songbirds: From Mechanisms to Evolution Jeffrey Podos and HaCheol Sung
Notes 3.3.5 Expanding the Function of Neurons in the Song System
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Subject Birdsongs.
Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)
Neurosciences.
Medical -- Otorhinolaryngology.
Medical -- Neuroscience.
Birdsongs
Form Electronic book
Author Sakata, Jon T
Woolley, Sarah C
Fay, Richard R.
Popper, Arthur N.
ISBN 9783030346836
3030346838