Song production across many songbird species is shaped by largely conserved sets of
constraints associated with song control, production, and perception. This chapter …

This chapter addresses the interplay of vocal performance, sensorimotor learning, and vocal
evolution in songbirds. Vocal performance is increasingly recognized as an influential factor …

Recent experiments in divergent fields of birdsong have revealed that vocal performance is
important for reproductive success and under active control by distinct neural circuits. Vocal …

Birdsong has long been a subject of extensive research in the fields of ethology as well as
neuroscience. Neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying song acquisition and …

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 …

Over the past decades, research into the vocal communication system of songbirds has
flourished. Research has spanned many levels of analysis, from broad evolutionary …

The variation and complexity of songbird vocalisations is striking, with some birds singing up
to 1,000 different song variants. Why do songbirds sing so much and such complex songs …

Oscine songbirds invest a substantial amount of time producing song, which has important
roles in male-male competition and in attracting and stimulating a mate (Howard, 1920), as …

Oscines learn to produce a complex vocalization, the song, which they copy from a
conspecific as young birds. The song is an attractive and conspicuous acoustic signal with …

Songbirds share a number of parallels with humans that make them an attractive model
system for studying the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the …