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Circuits, hormones, and learning: Vocal behavior in songbirds

✍ Scribed by Bottjer, Sarah W. ;Johnson, Frank

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 169 KB
Volume: 33
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-3034
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(19971105)33:5<602::aid-neu8>3.0.co;2-8

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✦ Synopsis

Species-typical vocal patterns subtransmitters, and cytokines for vocal patterns to be serve species identification and communication for inlearned and produced. Thus, vocal behavior in songdividual organisms. Only a few groups of organisms birds is a culturally acquired trait that is regulated learn the sounds used for vocal communication, inby multiple intrinsic as well as extrinsic factors. Here, cluding songbirds, humans, and cetaceans. Vocal we focus on functional relationships between circuitry learning in songbirds has come to serve as a model and behavior in male songbirds. In that context, we system for the study of brain-behavior relationships consider in particular the influence of sex hormones and neural mechanisms of learning and memory. on vocal behavior and its underlying circuitry, as well Songbirds learn specific vocal patterns during a sensias the regulatory and functional mechanisms sugtive period of development via a complex assortment gested by morphologic changes in the neural substrate of neurobehavioral mechanisms. In many species of for song control. We describe new data on the archisongbirds, the production of vocal behavior by adult tecture of the song system that suggests strong similarmales is used to defend territories and attract females, ities between the songbird vocal control system and and both males and females must perceive vocal patneural circuits for memory, cognition, and use-depenterns and respond to them. In both juveniles and dent plasticity in the mammalian brain. ᭧ 1997 John adults, specific types of auditory experience are neces-

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