Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language

The Control of Vocal Pitch in Human Laryngeal Motor Cortex

(2018) Benjamin K. Dichter et al.   CELL

The Lombard Effect: From Acoustics to Neural Mechanisms

(2018) Jinhong Luo et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Inhibition of Manual Movements at Speech Arrest Sites in the Posterior Inferior Frontal Lobe

(2018) Jonathan D Breshears et al.   NEUROSURGERY

Contributions of sensory tuning to auditory-vocal interactions in marmoset auditory cortex

(2017) Steven J. Eliades et al.   HEARING RESEARCH

The origins of the vocal brain in humans

(2017) Michel Belyk et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Bidding evidence for primate vocal learning and the cultural substrates for speech evolution

(2017) Adriano R. Lameira   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Control of species-dependent cortico-motoneuronal connections underlying manual dexterity

(2017) Zirong Gu et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence of a Vocalic Proto-System in the Baboon (Papio papio) Suggests Pre-Hominin Speech Precursors

(2017) Louis-Jean Boë et al.   PLoS One

Functional Segregation of Cortical Regions Underlying Speech Timing and Articulation

(2016) Michael A. Long et al.   NEURON

Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain

(2016) Seweryn Olkowicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Foxp2 Mutation Implicated in Human Speech Deficits Alters Sequencing of Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Adult Male Mice

(2016) Jonathan Chabout et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Learned vocal and breathing behavior in an enculturated gorilla

(2015) Marcus Perlman et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Motor-related signals in the auditory system for listening and learning

(2015) David M Schneider et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication

(2015) M. Chakraborty et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology.

(2015) Ben Alderson-Day et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

The laryngeal motor cortex: its organization and connectivity

(2014) Kristina Simonyan   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

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

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

The response of the anterior striatum during adult human vocal learning

(2014) Anna J. Simmonds et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Core and region-enriched networks of behaviorally regulated genes and the singing genome

(2014) O. Whitney et al.   SCIENCE

Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches

(2014) Kosuke Hamaguchi et al.   eLife

Mouse vocal communication system: Are ultrasounds learned or innate?

(2013) Gustavo Arriaga et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Vocal learning of a communicative signal in captive chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes

(2013) Jamie L. Russell et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

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

Functional organization of human sensorimotor cortex for speech articulation

(2013) Kristofer E. Bouchard et al.   NATURE

Evolution, brain, and the nature of language

(2013) Robert C. Berwick et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Rudimentary substrates for vocal learning in a suboscine

(2013) Wan-chun Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Inhibition of SRGAP2 Function by Its Human-Specific Paralogs Induces Neoteny during Spine Maturation

(2012) Cécile Charrier et al.   CELL

Evolution of Human-Specific Neural SRGAP2 Genes by Incomplete Segmental Duplication

(2012) Megan Y. Dennis et al.   CELL

Genes and human brain evolution

(2012) Daniel H. Geschwind et al.   NATURE

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

A hypothesis for basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning in the songbird

(2011) M.S. Fee et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Laryngeal Motor Cortex and Control of Speech in Humans

(2011) Kristina Simonyan et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Peripheral mechanisms for vocal production in birds – differences and similarities to human speech and singing

(2010) Tobias Riede et al.   BRAIN AND LANGUAGE

Twitter evolution: converging mechanisms in birdsong and human speech

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

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The evolution of the arcuate fasciculus revealed with comparative DTI

(2008) James K Rilling et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

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

(2008) Gesa Feenders et al.   PLoS One