Core and Shell Song Systems Unique to the Parrot Brain

Convergent differential regulation of SLIT-ROBO axon guidance genes in the brains of vocal learners

(2014) Rui Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Captive Rearing Experiments Confirm Song Development without Learning in a Tracheophone Suboscine Bird

(2014) Janeene M. Touchton et al.   PLoS One

Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds

(2014) A. R. Pfenning et al.   SCIENCE

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular profiling of the developing avian telencephalon: Regional timing and brain subdivision continuities

(2013) Chun-Chun Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Global view of the functional molecular organization of the avian cerebrum: Mirror images and functional columns

(2013) Erich D. Jarvis et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) can keep the beat: Motor entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli in a non vocal mimic.

(2013) Peter Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Behavioral Evidence for Song Learning in the Suboscine Bellbirds (Procniasspp.; Cotingidae)

(2013) Donald Kroodsma et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Spontaneous human speech mimicry by a cetacean

(2012) Sam Ridgway et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An Asian Elephant Imitates Human Speech

(2012) Angela S. Stoeger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Human Language Evolution: Constraints on Adaptation

(2012) W. Tecumseh Fitch   Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Differential Regulation of Parvalbumin in the Brains of Vocal Learners

(2012) Erina Hara et al.   PLoS One

Specialized Motor-Driven dusp1 Expression in the Song Systems of Multiple Lineages of Vocal Learning Birds

(2012) Haruhito Horita et al.   PLoS One

Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System Has Some Features Similar to Humans and Song-Learning Birds

(2012) Gustavo Arriaga et al.   PLoS One

Vocal mimicry

(2011) Laura A. Kelley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Robo1 and Robo2 have distinct roles in pioneer longitudinal axon guidance

(2011) Minkyung Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Social context influences the vocalizations of a home-raised African Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus erithacus).

(2011) Erin N. Colbert-White et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds

(2011) Alexander Suh et al.   Nature Communications

Vocal mimicry in male bowerbirds: who learns from whom?

(2010) L. A. Kelley et al.   Biology Letters

Vocal learning in Grey parrots: A brief review of perception, production, and cross-species comparisons

(2010) Irene M. Pepperberg   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Social Cognition and the Evolution of Language: Constructing Cognitive Phylogenies

(2010) W. Tecumseh Fitch et al.   NEURON

Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal

(2009) Aniruddh D. Patel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spontaneous Motor Entrainment to Music in Multiple Vocal Mimicking Species

(2009) Adena Schachner et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2

(2009) Genevieve Konopka et al.   NATURE

Parallel pathways for vocal learning in basal ganglia of songbirds

(2009) Sarah W Bottjer et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

(2009) Simon E. Fisher et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Vocal mimicry in songbirds

(2008) Laura A. Kelley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Vocal area-related expression of the androgen receptor in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) brain

(2008) Eiji Matsunaga et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Vocal mimicry in wild African Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus

(2008) ALICK J. CRUICKSHANK et al.   IBIS

Molecular Mapping of Movement-Associated Areas in the Avian Brain: A Motor Theory for Vocal Learning Origin

(2008) Gesa Feenders et al.   PLoS One