Cultural niche construction of repertoire size and learning strategies in songbirds

Does song complexity correlate with problem-solving performance in flocks of zebra finches?

(2014) Christopher N. Templeton et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Typical versions of learned swamp sparrow song types are more effective signals than are less typical versions

(2014) R. F. Lachlan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows

(2013) Kim L. Schmidt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

On the maintenance of bird song dialects

(2013) Robert Planqué et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

The role of cultural transmission in human demographic change: An age-structured model

(2013) L. Fogarty et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

How Reliable Is Song Learning Accuracy as a Signal of Male Early Condition?

(2012) R. F. Lachlan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Three decades of cultural evolution in Savannah sparrow songs

(2012) Heather Williams et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Testosterone increases repertoire size in an open-ended learner: An experimental study using adult male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

(2012) Alain J.-M. Van Hout et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Vocal Communications and the Maintenance of Population Specific Songs in a Contact Zone

(2012) Jonathan T. Rowell et al.   PLoS One

Models of Cultural Niche Construction with Selection and Assortative Mating

(2012) Nicole Creanza et al.   PLoS One

Vocal learning is constrained by the statistics of sensorimotor experience

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

Mixed-species flocks: an example of niche construction?

(2011) Nancy M. Harrison et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mate choice for cognitive traits: a review of the evidence in nonhuman vertebrates

(2011) N. J. Boogert et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Rethinking birdsong evolution: meta-analysis of the relationship between song complexity and reproductive success

(2011) Masayo Soma et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

CAN REINFORCEMENT OCCUR WITH A LEARNED TRAIT?

(2011) Helen Olofsson et al.   EVOLUTION

Runaway cultural niche construction

(2011) L. Rendell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Motor pathway convergence predicts syllable repertoire size in oscine birds

(2011) J. M. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Female response to song reflects male developmental history in swamp sparrows

(2010) William A. Searcy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A Sensitive Period for Song Acquisition in the Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia: A Case of Age-limited Learning

(2010) Peter Marler et al.   ETHOLOGY

Song complexity correlates with learning ability in zebra finch males

(2008) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female mate choice and songbird song repertoires

(2008) Bruce E. Byers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sympatry affects the evolution of genetic versus cultural determination of song

(2008) Helen Olofsson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches

(2008) M.-J. Holveck et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

How Reliable are the Methods for Estimating Repertoire Size?

(2008) Carlos A. Botero et al.   ETHOLOGY

Song learning as an indicator mechanism: Modelling the developmental stress hypothesis

(2007) Graham R.S. Ritchie et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY