title: Category Learning: Top-Down Effects Are Not Unique to Humans.
abstract: Human infants use top-down information to learn the sound category of their language. A new study using an artificial language containing species-specific vocalizations shows that songbirds may rely on a similar mechanism.
authors: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris Sciences Lettres Research University; Laboratoire de sciences Cognitives, CNRS, Paris. Electronic address: emmanuel.dupoux@gmail.com.
authors: Emmanuel
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authors: Dupoux
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D046709:Pattern Recognition, Physiological; D046749:Starlings / Q000502:physiology*