Bird fanciers have known for centuries that songbirds learn their songs. This learning has
striking parallels to speech acquisition: like humans, birds must hear the sounds of adults …

Songbirds are one of the best-studied examples of vocal learners. Learning of both human
speech and birdsong depends on hearing. Once learned, adult song in many species …

Many complex behaviours, like speech or music, have a hierarchical organization with
structure on many timescales, but it is not known how the brain controls the timing of …

Songbirds are capable of vocal learning and communication, and are ideally suited to the
study of neural mechanisms of complex sensory and motor processing. Vocal …

Songbirds (Oscines) learn their songs from a tutor. It is not known where in the brain the
memories of these learned sounds are stored. Recent evidence suggests that song …

As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory
experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of …

Songbirds learn and maintain their songs via auditory experience. Neurons in many
telencephalic nuclei important to song production and development are song selective, firing …

Although understanding the processing of natural sounds is an important goal in auditory
neuroscience, relatively little is known about the neural coding of these sounds. Recently we …

The discovery of spontaneous neuronal replacement in the adult vertebrate brain has
changed the way in which we think about the biology of memory. This is because neuronal …

Birdsong learning provides an ideal model system for studying temporally complex motor
behavior. Guided by the well-characterized functional anatomy of the song system, we have …