Role of syringeal muscles in gating airflow and sound production in singing brown thrashers

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 867-876

  Goller, Franz ^b   Suthers, Roderick A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

EID: 0030006151     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.2.867     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. ALLAN, S. E. AND SUTHERS, R. A. Laterahzation and motor stereotypy of song production in the brown-headed cowbird. J. Neurobiol. 25: 1154-1166, 1994.
2. AMES, P. L. The morphology of the syrinx in passerine birds. Bull. Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist. (Yale Univ.) 37: 1-194, 1971.
3. BRACKENBURY, J H. A comparison of the origin and temporal arrangement of pulsed sounds in the songs of the grasshopper and sedge warblers, Locustella naevia and Acrocephalus schoenobaenus J. Zool. Lond. 184: 187-206, 1978.
4. BRACKENBURY, J. H. Functions of the syrinx and the control of sound production. In: Form and Function in Birds, edited by A. S. King and J. McLelland. New York: Academic, 1989, vol. 4, p. 193-220.
5. CHAMBERLAIN, D. R., GROSS, W. B., CORNWELL, G. W., AND MOSBY, H. S. Syringeal anatomy in the common crow. Auk 85: 244-255, 1968.
6. DURRWANG, R. Funktionelle Biologie, Anatomie und Physiologie der Vogelstimme (PhD thesis). Basel: Univ. of Basel, 1974.
7. GAUNT, A. S. Phonation. In: Bird Respiration, edited by T. J. Seller. Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1987, vol. 1. p. 71-94.
8. GAUNT, A. S. AND GAUNT, S. L. L. Mechanics of the syrinx in Gallus gallus. II. Electromyographic studies of ad libitum vocalizations. J. Morphol. 152: 1-20, 1977.
9. GAUNT, A. S. AND GAUNT, S. L. L. Electromyographic studies of the syrinx in parrots (Aves, Psittacidae). Zoomarphologie 105: 1 -11, 1985.
10. GOLLER, F. AND SUTHERS, R. A. Implications for lateralization of bird song from unilateral gating of bilateral motor patterns. Nature Lond. 373: 63-66, 1995.
11. GREENEWALT, C. H. Bird Song: Acoustics and Physiology. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.
12. HARTLEY, R. S. AND SUTHERS, R. A. Airflow and pressure during canary song: direct evidence for mini-breaths. J. Comp Physiol. 165: 15-26, 1989.
13. KING, A. S. Functional anatomy of the syrinx. In. Form and Function in Birds, edited by A. S. King and J. McLelland, New York: Academic, 1989, vol. 4, p. 105-192.
14. KONISHI, M. Birdsong: from behavior to neuron. Annit. Rev. Neurosci. 8: 125-170, 1985.
15. KONISHI, M. Birdsong for neurobiologists. Neuron 3: 541-549, 1989.
16. KONISHI, M., EMLEN, S. T., RICKLEFS, R. E., AND WINGFIELD, J. C. Contributions of bird studies to biology. Science Wash. DC 246: 465-472, 1989.
17. LOCKNER, F. R. AND YOUNGREN, O. M. Functional syringeal anatomy of the mallard. I. In situ electromyograms during ESB elicited calling. Auk 93: 324-342, 1976.
18. LOEB, G. E. AND GANS, C. Electromyography for Experimentalists. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986.
19. MARGOLIASH, D., FORTUNE, E. S., SUTTER, M. L., Yu, A. C., WREN-HARDIN, B. D., AND DAVE, A. Distributed representation in the song system of oscines: evolutionary implications and functional consequences Brain Behav. Evol. 44: 247-264, 1994.
20. MISKIMEN, M. Sound production in passerine birds. Auk 68: 493-504, 1951.
21. NOTTEBOHM, F. Auditory experience and song development in the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs. Ibis 110: 549-568, 1968.
22. NOTTEBOHM, F., ALVAREZ-BUYLLA, A., CYNX, J., KIRN, J., LING, CH-Y., NOTTEBOHM, M., SUTER, R., TOLLES, A., AND WILLIAMS, H. Song learning in birds: the relation between perception and production. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 329: 115-124, 1990.
23. NOWICKI, S. AND MARLER, P. How do birds sing? Music Perception 5: 391-426, 1988.
24. SUTHERS, R. A. Contributions to birdsong from the left and right sides of the intact syrinx. Nature Lond. 347: 473-477, 1990.
25. SUTHERS, R. A. Lateralization of sound production and motor action on the left and right sides of the syrinx during bird song. Proc. Int. Congr. Acoustics 14, Beijing, 1992, vol. 11-5, p. 1-2.
26. SUTHERS, R. A., GOLLER, F., AND HARTLEY, R. S. Motor dynamics of song production by mimic thrushes. J. Neurobiol. 25: 917-936, 1994.
27. SUTHERS, R. A. AND HECTOR, D. H. Mechanism for the production of echolocating clicks by the grey swiftlet, Collocalia spodiopygia. J Comp. Physiol. 148: 457-470, 1982.
28. SUTHERS, R. A. AND HECTOR, D. H. The physiology of vocalization by the echolocating oilbird, Steatornis caripensis. J. Comp. Physiol. 156: 243-266, 1985.
29. VICARIO, D. S. Neural mechanisms of vocal production in songbirds. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 1: 595-600, 1991a.
30. VICARIO, D. S. Contributions of syringeal muscles to respiration and vocalization in the zebra finch. J. Neurobiol. 22: 36-73, 1991b.
31. VICARIO, D. S. Motor mechanisms relevant to auditory-vocal interactions in songbirds. Brain Behav. Evol. 44: 265-278, 1994.
32. VICARIO, D. S. AND NOTTEBOHM, F. Organization of the zebra finch song control system. I. Representation of syringeal muscles in the hypoglossal nucleus. J. Comp. Neurol. 271: 346-354, 1988.
33. WARNER, R. W. The anatomy of the syrinx in passerine birds. J. Zool. Lond. 168: 381-393, 1972.
34. WILLIAMS, H Bird song. In: Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition, edited by R. P. Kesner and D. S. Olton, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1990, p. 77-126.
35. YOUNGREN, O. M., PEEK, F W., AND PHILLIPS, R. E. Repetitive vocalizations evoked by local electrical stimulation of avian brains. III. Evoked activity in the trachal muscles of the chicken (Gallus gallus) Brain Behav. Evol. 9: 393-421, 1974.