Stress hormones, social associations and song learning in zebra finches

An automated barcode tracking system for behavioural studies in birds

(2018) Gustavo Alarcón-Nieto et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How does cognition shape social relationships?

(2018) Claudia A. F. Wascher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Habitat and social context affect memory phenotype, exploration and covariance among these traits

(2018) Sarah Dalesman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The impact of environmental interventions among mouse siblings on the heritability and malleability of general cognitive ability

(2018) Bruno Sauce et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmentally induced changes to brain morphology predict cognitive performance

(2018) Thomas W. Pike et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An intraspecific appraisal of the social intelligence hypothesis

(2018) Benjamin J. Ashton et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Age and early social environment influence guppy social learning propensities

(2016) Ioannis Leris et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A minimum-impact, flexible tool to study vocal communication of small animals with precise individual-level resolution

(2016) Lisa F. Gill et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive

(2016) Rose Thorogood et al.   Scientific Reports

Nutrition and peer group composition in early adolescence: impacts on male song and female preference in zebra finches

(2015) Mariam Honarmand et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Inferring social structure from temporal data

(2015) Ioannis Psorakis et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Experimental Evidence that Social Relationships Determine Individual Foraging Behavior

(2015) Josh A. Firth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early-Life Stress Triggers Juvenile Zebra Finches to Switch Social Learning Strategies

(2015) Damien R. Farine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The size and composition of social groups in the wild zebra finch

(2015) Luke S. C. McCowan et al.   EMU

Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis

(2015) Damien R. Farine et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Corticosterone exposure during development improves performance on a novel foraging task in zebra finches

(2014) O.L. Crino et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social networks created with different techniques are not comparable

(2014) Madelaine Castles et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of early auditory experience on the development of local song preference in female swamp sparrows

(2014) Rindy C. Anderson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Perching but not foraging networks predict the spread of novel foraging skills in starlings

(2014) Neeltje J. Boogert et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Developmental stress predicts social network position

(2014) N. J. Boogert et al.   Biology Letters

Developmental Stress, Song-Learning, and Cognition

(2014) S. Peters et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

(2014) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   NATURE

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

Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees

(2014) Catherine Hobaiter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Pre- and post-natal stress have opposing effects on social information use

(2013) N. J. Boogert et al.   Biology Letters

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

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

Animal social network inference and permutations for ecologists inRusingasnipe

(2013) Damien R. Farine   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phenotypic plasticity of avian social-learning strategies

(2012) Katharina Riebel et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Male song structure predicts reproductive success in a wild zebra finch population

(2012) Joseph L. Woodgate et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Early maternal care predicts reliance on social learning about food in adult rats

(2012) Charlotte M. Lindeyer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Cuckoos Combat Socially Transmitted Defenses of Reed Warbler Hosts with a Plumage Polymorphism

(2012) R. Thorogood et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

(2012) L. G. Dean et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial movements and social networks in juvenile male song sparrows

(2011) Christopher N. Templeton et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Social learning of vocal structure in a nonhuman primate?

(2011) Alban Lemasson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

(2011) Luke Rendell et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

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

Developmental stress affects song learning but not song complexity and vocal amplitude in zebra finches

(2009) Henrik Brumm et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Social learning about egg-laying substrates in fruitflies

(2009) S. Sarin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Postnatal Stress in Birds: A Novel Model of Glucocorticoid Programming of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis

(2008) Karen A. Spencer et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Early experience affects producer–scrounger foraging tendencies in the house sparrow

(2007) Edith Katsnelson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR