The human capacity to synchronize movements to an auditory beat is central to musical
behaviour and to debates over the evolution of human musicality. Have humans evolved …

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 …

Wireless battery free and fully implantable tools for the interrogation of the central and
peripheral nervous system have quantitatively expanded the capabilities to study …

Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and
perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli. A …

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

In many vertebrates, courtship occurs through the performance of elaborate behavioral
displays that are as spectacular as they are complex. The question of how sexual selection …

Deterioration in the quality of a person's voice and speech is an early marker of Parkinson's
disease (PD). In humans, the neural circuit that supports vocal motor control consists of a …

Effective vocal communication often requires the listener to recognize the identity of a
vocalizer, and this recognition is dependent on the listener's ability to form auditory …

The mammalian vocal pattern generator is situated in the brainstem but its exact structure is
debated. We mapped these circuits in rats by cooling and microstimulation. Local cooling …

Many social animals can recognize other individuals by their vocalizations. This requires a
memory system capable of mapping incoming acoustic signals to one of many known …