Aesthetic evaluations are appraisals that influence choices in important domains of human
activity, including mate selection, consumer behavior, art appreciation, and possibly even …

Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty,
pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched …

Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal
learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three
distantly related groups of mammals (humans, bats, and cetaceans) and three distantly …

Human infants develop language remarkably rapidly and without overt instruction. We argue
that the distinctive ontogenesis of child language arises from the interplay of three factors …

Most of our motor skills are not innately programmed, but are learned by a combination of
motor exploration and performance evaluation, suggesting that they proceed through a …

The Bengalese finch Lonchura striata var. domestica is a domesticated strain of a wild
species, the white‐rumped munia Lonchura striata of Southeast Asia. Bengalese finches …

Brainstem nuclei have well established roles in generating nonlearned rhythmic behaviors
or as output pathways for more complex, forebrain-generated behaviors. However, the role …