… Our finding of a novel mechanism that shapes vocal learning in the zebra finch offers a new
approach to studying comparative vocal development, as it demonstrates that this ubiquitous …

… Zebra finches learn their beautiful songs by listening to other zebra finches. Vallentin et al. …
In that study, juvenile zebra finches were unable to imitate the tutor when HVC activity was …

… In the current study, we investigated the importance of learning, song phonetics and … in
adult zebra finches. In particular, we tested whether song amplitude is affected by vocal learning …

… zebra finches in this study were reared by a Bengalese finch. These two birds, as with those
reared by zebra finches… 12: 1.66; Red 4: 1.09) and conspecific (zebra finch) songs (Black 12, …

… zebra finches learn their song by imitating external models, we speculated that the importance
of the recursive loop for learning … were familiar with intact zebra finch song, we designed …

… Humans and songbirds belong to the small group of animals that learn vocal signals. A
birdsong consists of sound components such as notes and syllables and silent intervals between …

… conditions that bring vocal learning under fine experimental control and provide a detailed
acoustic analysis of the sound transformations that underlie the learning process. Zebra finch (…

… in zebra finches, and second, to test the importance of visual and vocal interactions between
… We found that female zebra finches copied novel food choices of male demonstrators they …

… reflects sex differences in vocal production or in vocal learning. The present … vocal
production and vocal learning by studying the neural substrate for call production in zebra finches. …

… We found that food restriction during the sensitive period of song learning in zebra finches
affected the accuracy of learning by the nestlings; in particular, birds fed suboptimally matched …