Zebra finches are an important model for vocal learning and avian mate choice. The two are
contingent on each other: males' learned songs are addressed at females with learned …

The song of male Zebra Finches has been the focus of decades of behavioural,
developmental, neurobiological and, increasingly, genomic research. Zann was the first to …

The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a socially monogamous and colonial opportunistic
breeder with pronounced sexual differences in singing and plumage coloration. Its natural …

Highlights•A meta-analysis of factors that may affect auditory discrimination
learning.•Females learned auditory discriminations faster than males.•Developmental …

There is both extensive species-specificity and critical experience-dependence in the
recognition of own species songs in many songbird species. For example, female zebra …

Female choice plays a critical role in the evolution of male acoustic displays. Yet there is
limited information on the neurophysiological basis of female songbirds' auditory recognition …

Accurate song perception is likely to be as important for female songbirds as it is for male
songbirds. Male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) show differential ZENK expression to …

As research neurobiologists, we pursue specific questions, and the answers rendered are
also correspondingly specific. Our goal, however, is to understand an entire system or the …

Male songbirds learn to produce their songs, and females attend to these songs during mate
choice. The evidence that female song preferences are learned early in life, however, is …

Centrally acting cannabinoids are well known for their ability to impair functions associated
with both learning and memory but appreciation of the physiological mechanisms underlying …