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 …

Auditory communication in humans and other animals frequently takes place in noisy
environments with many co‐occurring signallers. Receivers are thus challenged to rapidly …

Songbirds and humans share the ability to adaptively modify their vocalizations based on
sensory feedback. Prior studies have focused primarily on the role that auditory feedback …

Prolonged social isolation has negative effects on brain and behavior in humans and other
social organisms, but neural mechanisms leading to these effects are not understood. Here …

In recent years, the impact of prenatal sound on development, notably for programming
individual phenotypes for postnatal conditions, has increasingly been revealed. However …

The medial amygdala (MA) is a complex amygdaloid structure that is both part of the
“extended amygdala” and a key node in the social behavior network. It is superficial to …

Prolonged or chronic social isolation has pronounced effects on animals, ranging from
altered stress responses, increased anxiety and aggressive behaviour, and even increased …

Rhythm is an important aspect of both human speech and birdsong. Adult zebra finches
show increased neural activity following exposure to arrhythmic compared to rhythmic song …

Oestradiol is abundant in the zebra finch auditory forebrain and has the capacity to modulate
neural responses to auditory stimuli with specificity as a result of both hemisphere and sex …

Social relationships are complex, involving the production and comprehension of signals,
individual recognition, and close coordination of behavior between two or more individuals …