Vocalization, Animal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations. 
  • A Relationship between the Characteristics of the Oval Nucleus of the Mesopallium and Parrot Vocal Response to Playback. 
  • A Specialized Neural Circuit Gates Social Vocalizations in the Mouse. 
  • A bird's eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. 
  • A common neural circuit mechanism for internally guided and externally reinforced forms of motor learning. 
  • A framework for integrating the songbird brain. 
  • A hypothesis on a role of oxytocin in the social mechanisms of speech and vocal learning. 
  • A mesocortical dopamine circuit enables the cultural transmission of vocal behaviour. 
  • A molecular neuroethological approach for identifying and characterizing a cascade of behaviorally regulated genes. 
  • A relationship between behavior, neurotrophin expression, and new neuron survival. 
  • A synaptic basis for auditory-vocal integration in the songbird. 
  • Acute injections of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a vocal premotor nucleus reversibly disrupt adult birdsong stability and trigger syllable deletion. 
  • An acoustic survey of beaked whales at Cross Seamount near Hawaii. 
  • An archive of longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of adult Gombe chimpanzees. 
  • Androgens and isolation from adult tutors differentially affect the development of songbird neurons critical to vocal plasticity. 
  • Androgens modulate NMDA receptor-mediated EPSCs in the zebra finch song system. 
  • Assessing visual requirements for social context-dependent activation of the songbird song system. 
  • Associative learning and stimulus novelty influence the song-induced expression of an immediate early gene in the canary forebrain. 
  • Auditory cortical activity drives feedback-dependent vocal control in marmosets. 
  • Auditory representation of the vocal repertoire in a songbird with multiple song types. 
  • Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches. 
  • Auditory-vocal mirroring in songbirds. 
  • Autistic-like behaviour and cerebellar dysfunction in Purkinje cell Tsc1 mutant mice. 
  • Avian nucleus retroambigualis: cell types and projections to other respiratory-vocal nuclei in the brain of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). 
  • Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches. 
  • Basal ganglia function, stuttering, sequencing, and repair in adult songbirds. 
  • Behavioral learning. The illuminated songbird. 
  • Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. 
  • Bilateral syringeal coupling during phonation of a songbird. 
  • Bilateral syringeal interaction in vocal production of an oscine bird sound. 
  • Bird song: of tone and tempo in the telencephalon. 
  • Birdsong neuroscience and the evolutionary substrates of learned vocalization. 
  • Birdsong. 
  • Bottlenose dolphins exchange signature whistles when meeting at sea. 
  • Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis". 
  • Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication. 
  • Brain gene regulation by territorial singing behavior in freely ranging songbirds. 
  • Can an old bird change his tune? 
  • Cardiac responses to acoustic playback experiments in the captive bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). 
  • Changes in vocal behavior of North Atlantic right whales in increased noise. 
  • Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization. 
  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. 
  • Comparative genomics reveals molecular features unique to the songbird lineage. 
  • Comparison of auditory-vocal interactions across multiple types of vocalizations in marmoset auditory cortex. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Contributions of sensory tuning to auditory-vocal interactions in marmoset auditory cortex. 
  • Controlling for activity-dependent genes and behavioral states is critical for determining brain relationships within and across species. 
  • Convergent differential regulation of SLIT-ROBO axon guidance genes in the brains of vocal learners. 
  • Convergent differential regulation of parvalbumin in the brains of vocal learners. 
  • Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds. 
  • Core and Shell Song Systems Unique to the Parrot Brain. 
  • Core and region-enriched networks of behaviorally regulated genes and the singing genome. 
  • Corollary Discharge Mechanisms During Vocal Production in Marmoset Monkeys. 
  • Corollary discharge circuits in the primate brain. 
  • Cultural conformity generates extremely stable traditions in bird song. 
  • Deafening drives cell-type-specific changes to dendritic spines in a sensorimotor nucleus important to learned vocalizations. 
  • Development of fast singing muscles in a katydid. 
  • Development of intrinsic and synaptic properties in a forebrain nucleus essential to avian song learning. 
  • Developmental stress, song-learning, and cognition. 
  • Different mechanisms are responsible for dishabituation of electrophysiological auditory responses to a change in acoustic identity than to a change in stimulus location. 
  • Different subthreshold mechanisms underlie song selectivity in identified HVc neurons of the zebra finch. 
  • Differential expression of glutamate receptors in avian neural pathways for learned vocalization. 
  • Differential vocalization in budgerigars: towards an experimental analysis of naming. 
  • Discrete Evaluative and Premotor Circuits Enable Vocal Learning in Songbirds. 
  • Dissociation of Unit Activity and Gamma Oscillations during Vocalization in Primate Auditory Cortex. 
  • Divergent projections from locus coeruleus to the corticobasal ganglia system and ventral tegmental area of the adult male zebra finch. 
  • Dolphin foraging sounds suppress calling and elevate stress hormone levels in a prey species, the Gulf toadfish. 
  • Dopamine receptors in a songbird brain. 
  • Dynamics of auditory-vocal interaction in monkey auditory cortex. 
  • Early onset of deafening-induced song deterioration and differential requirements of the pallial-basal ganglia vocal pathway. 
  • Effects of duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings on detecting the presence of beaked whales in the northwest Atlantic. 
  • Eliciting and Analyzing Male Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalization (USV) Songs. 
  • Estrogen and sex-dependent loss of the vocal learning system in female zebra finches. 
  • Evaluating functional network inference using simulations of complex biological systems. 
  • Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language. 
  • FOXP2 variation in great ape populations offers insight into the evolution of communication skills. 
  • Familiar social and nonsocial stimuli and the kitten's response to a strange environment. 
  • Female lions can identify potentially infanticidal males from their roars. 
  • Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences. 
  • For whom the bird sings: context-dependent gene expression. 
  • Forebrain nuclei linked to woodpecker territorial drum displays mirror those that enable vocal learning in songbirds. 
  • FoxP2 expression in avian vocal learners and non-learners. 
  • Generative models of birdsong learning link circadian fluctuations in song variability to changes in performance. 
  • Homogeneity of intrinsic properties of sexually dimorphic vocal motoneurons in male and female zebra finches. 
  • How Movement Modulates Hearing. 
  • Identification of a motor-to-auditory pathway important for vocal learning. 
  • Imaging auditory representations of song and syllables in populations of sensorimotor neurons essential to vocal communication. 
  • In vitro neurogenesis by neuronal precursor cells derived from the adult songbird brain. 
  • Individual right whales call louder in increased environmental noise. 
  • Influence of network topology and data collection on network inference. 
  • Information content of female copulation calls in yellow baboons. 
  • Inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms underlying auditory responses to learned vocalizations in the songbird nucleus HVC. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor-1 is a radial cell-associated neurotrophin that promotes neuronal recruitment from the adult songbird edpendyma/subependyma. 
  • Intraspecific and geographic variation of West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus spp.) vocalizations. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to auditory selectivity in a song nucleus critical for vocal plasticity. 
  • Is there a simple recipe for how to make friends? 
  • Kinematics of birdsong: functional correlation of cranial movements and acoustic features in sparrows. 
  • Learned birdsong and the neurobiology of human language. 
  • Lesions of an avian forebrain nucleus that disrupt song development alter synaptic connectivity and transmission in the vocal premotor pathway. 
  • Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax. 
  • Long-range inhibition within the zebra finch song nucleus RA can coordinate the firing of multiple projection neurons. 
  • Long-term behavioral assessment of guinea pigs following neonatal pneumoperitoneum. 
  • Longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of immature Gombe chimpanzees for developmental studies. 
  • Low-dimensional learned feature spaces quantify individual and group differences in vocal repertoires. 
  • MIN1PIPE: A Miniscope 1-Photon-Based Calcium Imaging Signal Extraction Pipeline. 
  • Manipulation of a central auditory representation shapes learned vocal output. 
  • Marmoset vocal communication: Behavior and neurobiology. 
  • Maternal recognition of infant calls in ring-tailed lemurs. 
  • Molecular mapping of brain areas involved in parrot vocal communication. 
  • Motor circuits help encode auditory memories of vocal models used to guide vocal learning. 
  • Motor-driven gene expression. 
  • Mouse model of Timothy syndrome recapitulates triad of autistic traits. 
  • Mouse vocal communication system: are ultrasounds learned or innate? 
  • Mysterious bio-duck sound attributed to the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). 
  • Natural and anthropogenic events influence the soundscapes of four bays on Hawaii Island. 
  • Nestling growth and song repertoire size in great reed warblers: evidence for song learning as an indicator mechanism in mate choice. 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • Neural correlates of learned song in the avian forebrain: simultaneous representation of self and others. 
  • Neural correlates of the lombard effect in primate auditory cortex. 
  • Neural dynamics underlying birdsong practice and performance. 
  • Neural mechanisms for learned birdsong. 
  • Neural substrates of vocalization feedback monitoring in primate auditory cortex. 
  • Neurobiology of song learning. 
  • Nonlinear phenomena in the vocalizations of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) and killer whales (Orcinus orca). 
  • North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli. 
  • Of mice, birds, and men: the mouse ultrasonic song system has some features similar to humans and song-learning birds. 
  • Opiate withdrawal in the neonatal rat: relationship to duration of treatment and naloxone dose. 
  • Overexpression of human NR2B receptor subunit in LMAN causes stuttering and song sequence changes in adult zebra finches. 
  • Oxytocin variation and brain region-specific gene expression in a domesticated avian species. 
  • Persistent representation of juvenile experience in the adult songbird brain. 
  • Physiology of neuronal subtypes in the respiratory-vocal integration nucleus retroamigualis of the male zebra finch. 
  • Positive selection in noncoding genomic regions of vocal learning birds is associated with genes implicated in vocal learning and speech functions in humans. 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Profiling of experience-regulated proteins in the songbird auditory forebrain using quantitative proteomics. 
  • Quality of song learning affects female response to male bird song. 
  • Rapid spine stabilization and synaptic enhancement at the onset of behavioural learning. 
  • Recurrent interactions between the input and output of a songbird cortico-basal ganglia pathway are implicated in vocal sequence variability. 
  • Respiratory and telencephalic modulation of vocal motor neurons in the zebra finch. 
  • Response to: The metabolic cost of whistling is low but measurable in dolphins. 
  • Role of the midbrain dopaminergic system in modulation of vocal brain activation by social context. 
  • Rudimentary substrates for vocal learning in a suboscine. 
  • Selective expression of insulin-like growth factor II in the songbird brain. 
  • Selective reactions to different killer whale call categories in two delphinid species. 
  • Sensory-motor interaction in the primate auditory cortex during self-initiated vocalizations. 
  • Site-specific retinoic acid production in the brain of adult songbirds. 
  • Slow NMDA-EPSCs at synapses critical for song development are not required for song learning in zebra finches. 
  • Social context-dependent singing-regulated dopamine. 
  • Song decrystallization in adult zebra finches does not require the song nucleus NIf. 
  • Song function and the evolution of female preferences: why birds sing, why brains matter. 
  • Song learning and cognitive ability are not consistently related in a songbird. 
  • Song production by the North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica. 
  • Songbirds and the revised avian brain nomenclature. 
  • Songbirds learn songs least degraded by environmental transmission. 
  • Stable propagation of a burst through a one-dimensional homogeneous excitatory chain model of songbird nucleus HVC. 
  • Swamp sparrows modulate vocal performance in an aggressive context. 
  • Synaptic basis for developmental plasticity in a birdsong nucleus. 
  • Synaptic interactions underlying song-selectivity in the avian nucleus HVC revealed by dual intracellular recordings. 
  • Synaptic mechanisms for auditory-vocal integration and the correction of vocal errors. 
  • Synaptic transformations underlying highly selective auditory representations of learned birdsong. 
  • Telencephalic neurons monosynaptically link brainstem and forebrain premotor networks necessary for song. 
  • Testosterone induction of song in photosensitive and photorefractory male sparrows. 
  • Thalamic gating of auditory responses in telencephalic song control nuclei. 
  • The HVC microcircuit: the synaptic basis for interactions between song motor and vocal plasticity pathways. 
  • The cerebellum influences vocal timing. 
  • The evolution of vocal learning. 
  • The genome of a songbird. 
  • The neurobiology of innate, volitional and learned vocalizations in mammals and birds. 
  • The neurobiology of primate vocal communication. 
  • The pallial basal ganglia pathway modulates the behaviorally driven gene expression of the motor pathway. 
  • The role of auditory feedback in vocal learning and maintenance. 
  • The role of sex chromosomes and sex hormones in vocal learning systems. 
  • Trophic effects of androgen: development and hormonal regulation of neuron number in a sexually dimorphic vocal motor nucleus. 
  • Typical versions of learned swamp sparrow song types are more effective signals than are less typical versions. 
  • Ultrasonic vocalization behavior differs between lines of ethanol-preferring and nonpreferring rats. 
  • Using nonlinear time warping to estimate North Pacific right whale calling depths in the Bering Sea. 
  • Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds 
  • Vocal tract function in birdsong production: experimental manipulation of beak movements. 
  • Vocal tract resonances in oscine bird sound production: evidence from birdsongs in a helium atmosphere. 
  • Waiting periods versus early innervation: the development of axonal connections in the zebra finch song system. 
  • Whistle rates of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): influences of group size and behavior. 
  • Whistling is metabolically cheap for communicating bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 
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  Keywords of People

  • Eliades, Steven Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Hartemink, Alexander J., Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Biology
  • Nowicki, Stephen, Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society