title: Song learning in birds: the relation between perception and production.
abstract: The vocal control system of oscine songbirds has some perplexing properties--e.g. laterality, adult neurogenesis, neuronal replacement--that are not predicted by common views of how vocal learning takes place. Similarly, we do not understand the relation between the direct pathway for the control of learned song and the recursive pathway necessary for song learning. Some of the paradoxes of the vocal system of birds may disappear once the relation between the perception and production of learned vocalizations is better understood. To some extent, perception and production may be two closely related states of a same system.
authors.affiliation: Rockefeller University Field Research Center, Millbrook, New York 12545.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nottebohm
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Buylla
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cynx
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kirn
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nottebohm
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Suter
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tolles
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008959:Models, Neurological; D014828:Vocalization, Animal