… , this book provides a comprehensive summary of birdsong neurobiology, and identifies the
… , the parallels between language and birdsong and the relationship between the brains of …

… analogies between birdsong and speech, both learned forms of vocalization. Birdsong and
speech … We discuss the implications of these relationships for evolutionary neuroscience and …

… by studying birdsong. The goal of this article is to review the basics of birdsong learning, …
the significance of this research for experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience. …

… Understanding the science of birdsong ultimately requires a basic understanding of the
vertebrate brain. Birds and mammals, including humans, are vertebrate animals. Regardless of …

The process through which young male songbirds learn the characteristics of the songs of
an adult male of their own species has strong similarities with speech acquisition in human …

… But birdsong is not just a threat flung at potential trespassers; it is … birdsong for humans may
sound cheerful, to female songbirds it has sex appeal. Despite these comments, birdsong is …

… More recently, the emerging field of birdsong neurogenetics has advanced the way we
think about genetic contributions to communication, mechanistically and conceptually. …

… ioral neuroscience. To mark the beginning of the subsequently contributed to our understanding
… readers outside the birdsong field. Readers of this Juvenile males with lesions of Area X …

… The delineation of neural circuits for birdsong raises the promise that this complex form of
vocal learning, which bears strong parallels to human speech learning, can be understood in …

… Woolley, provides an overview of birdsong research and of the volume. In Chap. 2, Jon T. …
of evolutionary, social, and comparative neuroscience. Neuromodulation of neural activity in …