Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning

Birdsong neurolinguistics

(2012) Gabriël J.L. Beckers et al.   NEUROREPORT

Pattern perception and computational complexity: introduction to the special issue

(2012) W. T. Fitch et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Recurring patterns in the songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

(2011) Sean R. Green et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Neural Coding of Syntactic Structure in Learned Vocalizations in the Songbird

(2011) H. Fujimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Songbirds possess the spontaneous ability to discriminate syntactic rules

(2011) Kentaro Abe et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Complex Sequencing Rules of Birdsong Can be Explained by Simple Hidden Markov Processes

(2011) Kentaro Katahira et al.   PLoS One

Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa

(2011) Q. D. Atkinson   SCIENCE

A Compact Statistical Model of the Song Syntax in Bengalese Finch

(2011) Dezhe Z. Jin et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Statistical and Prosodic Cues for Song Segmentation Learning by Bengalese Finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica)

(2010) Miki Takahasi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Are there species-universal categories in bird song phonology and syntax? A comparative study of chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs), zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata), and swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana).

(2010) R. F. Lachlan et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

(2010) Johan J. Bolhuis et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Reply to Gentner et al.: As simple as possible, but not simpler

(2010) C. ten Cate et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple stimuli, simple strategies

(2010) T. Q. Gentner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ethological data mining: an automata-based approach to extract behavioral units and rules

(2009) Yasuki Kakishita et al.   DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

Can free-ranging rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) extract artificially created rules comprised of natural vocalizations?

(2009) Marc David Hauser et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species

(2009) C. A. A. van Heijningen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech

(2009) V. R. Ohms et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Perceptual and memory constraints on language acquisition

(2009) Ansgar D. Endress et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Population coding of song element sequence in the Bengalese finch HVC

(2008) Jun Nishikawa et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Song Motor control organizes acoustic patterns on two levels in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica)

(2008) Yoshimasa Seki et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Artificial grammar learning in pigeons

(2008) W. T. HERBRANSON et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Rule Learning by Rats

(2008) R. A. Murphy et al.   SCIENCE