A blueprint for vocal learning: auditory predispositions from brains to genomes

Early song discrimination by nestling sparrows in the wild

(2014) Daizaburo Shizuka   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Comparative genomics reveals molecular features unique to the songbird lineage

(2014) Morgan Wirthlin et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Development of neural responsivity to vocal sounds in higher level auditory cortex of songbirds

(2014) Vanessa C. Miller-Sims et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Behavioral and neural trade-offs between song complexity and stress reaction in a wild and a domesticated finch strain

(2014) Kenta Suzuki et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Quantitative integration of genetic factors in the learning and production of canary song

(2014) P. C. Mundinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological basis for the evolution of acoustic diversity in oscine songbirds

(2014) T. Riede et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Experience dependence of neural responses to different classes of male songs in the primary auditory forebrain of female songbirds

(2013) Mark E. Hauber et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The Progressive Loss of Syntactical Structure in Bird Song along an Island Colonization Chain

(2013) Robert F. Lachlan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Embryonic Learning of Vocal Passwords in Superb Fairy-Wrens Reveals Intruder Cuckoo Nestlings

(2012) Diane Colombelli-Négrel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Song tutoring in presinging zebra finch juveniles biases a small population of higher-order song-selective neurons toward the tutor song

(2012) Patrice Adret et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Impact of experience-dependent and -independent factors on gene expression in songbird brain

(2012) J. Drnevich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From songs to synapses: Molecular mechanisms of birdsong memory

(2011) Sanne Moorman et al.   BIOESSAYS

Song exposure regulates known and novel microRNAs in the zebra finch auditory forebrain

(2011) Preethi H Gunaratne et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mechanisms of song perception in oscine birds

(2010) Daniel P. Knudsen et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Biased embryos: Prenatal Experience Alters the Postnatal Malleability of Auditory Preferences in Bobwhite Quail

(2010) Christopher Harshaw et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Song Learning in Wild and Domesticated Strains of White-Rumped Munia,Lonchura striata, Compared by Cross-Fostering Procedures: Domestication Increases Song Variability by Decreasing Strain-Specific Bias

(2010) Miki Takahasi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Electrophysiological and morphological development of the inner ear in Belgian Waterslager canaries

(2010) Elizabeth F. Brittan-Powell et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

The dusp1 immediate early gene is regulated by natural stimuli predominantly in sensory input neurons

(2010) Haruhito Horita et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The relationship of neurogenesis and growth of brain regions to song learning

(2009) John R. Kirn   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Neural mechanisms for learned birdsong

(2009) R. Mooney   LEARNING & MEMORY

Discrete molecular states in the brain accompany changing responses to a vocal signal

(2009) S. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neural encoding of auditory temporal context in a songbird basal ganglia nucleus, and its independence of birds' song experience

(2008) Satoshi Kojima et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

THE LEARNING OF SONG PATTERNS BY BIRDS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SONG OF THE CHAFFINCH FRINGILLA COELEBS

(2008) W. H. Thorpe   IBIS

Functional identification of sensory mechanisms required for developmental song learning

(2008) Sarah E London et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE