The singing question: Re‐conceptualizing birdsong

EM Rose, NH Prior, GF Ball - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Birdsong has been the subject of broad research from a variety of sub‐disciplines and has
taught us much about the evolution, function, and mechanisms driving animal …

[HTML][HTML] The neurobiology of behavior and its applicability for animal welfare: A review

GA Coria-Avila, JG Pfaus, A Orihuela… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Animal welfare is the result of physical and psychological well-being and
is expected to occur if animals are free:(1) from hunger, thirst and malnutrition,(2) from …

[HTML][HTML] Acute social isolation and regrouping cause short-and long-term molecular changes in the rat medial amygdala

D Lavenda-Grosberg, M Lalzar, N Leser… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Social isolation poses a severe mental and physiological burden on humans. Most animal
models that investigate this effect are based on prolonged isolation, which does not mimic …

Vocal learning and flexible rhythm pattern perception are linked: Evidence from songbirds

AA Rouse, AD Patel, MH Kao - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Rhythm perception is fundamental to speech and music. Humans readily recognize a
rhythmic pattern, such as that of a familiar song, independently of the tempo at which it …

Vocal learning in animals and humans

SC Vernes, VM Janik, WT Fitch… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social‐sensory framework of social behavior

NH Prior, EJ Bentz, AG Ophir - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and
perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli. A …

Mechanisms and constraints underlying acoustic variation in rodents

M Fernández-Vargas, T Riede, B Pasch - Animal behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Rodents exhibit extreme variation in acoustic signal structure.•Intraspecific
acoustic variation is often overlooked.•Acoustic variation is associated with ontogenic, social …

Capturing the effects of domestication on vocal learning complexity

T O'Rourke, PT Martins, R Asano, RO Tachibana… - Trends in cognitive …, 2021 - cell.com
Domesticated and vocal learning species can serve as informative model organisms for the
reduction of reactive aggression and emergence of speech in our lineage. Amidst mounting …

Autism-linked gene FoxP1 selectively regulates the cultural transmission of learned vocalizations

F Garcia-Oscos, TMI Koch, H Pancholi, M Trusel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by impaired learning of social skills
and language. Memories of how parents and other social models behave are used to guide …

[HTML][HTML] Convergent and divergent neural circuit architectures that support acoustic communication

DB Kelley - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Vocal communication is used across extant vertebrates, is evolutionarily ancient, and been
maintained, in many lineages. Here I review the neural circuit architectures that support …