The role of nonlinear dynamics of the syrinx in the vocalizations of a songbird

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 67-71

  Fee, Michale S ^a   Shraiman, Boris ^a   Pesaran, Bijan ^b   Mitra, Partha P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRONCHI; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SONGBIRDS; TRACHEA; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0032480297     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25725     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Greenewalt, C. H. Brid Song: Acoustics and Physiology (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1968).
2. Nottebohm, F., Stokes, T. M. & Leonard, C. M. Central control of song in the canary, Serinus canarius. J. Comp. Neurol. 165, 457-486 (1976).
3. Nottebohm, F., Kelley, D. B. & Paton, J. A. Connections of vocal control nuclei in the canary telencephalon. J. Comp. Neurol. 207 (1982).
4. McCasland, J. S. Neuronal control of bird song production. J. Neurosci. 7, 23-39 (1987).
5. Scharff, C. & Nottebohm, F. A comparative study of the behavioral deficits following lesions of various parts of the zebra finch song system: implications for vocal learning. J. Neurosci. 11, 2896-2913 (1991).
6. Konishi, M. Pattern generation in birdsong. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 4, 827-831 (1994).
7. Vu, E., Mazurek, M. E. & Kuo, Y.-C. Identification of a forebrain motor programming network for the learned song of zebra finches. J. Neurosci. 14, 6924-6934 (1994).
8. Yu, A. & Margoliash, D. Temporal hierarchical control of singing in birds. Science 273, 1871-1875 (1996).
9. Immelman, K. in Bird Vocalizations (ed. Hinde, R. A.) pp. 61-74 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969).
10. Price, P. H. Developmental determinants of structure in zebra finch song. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 93, 260-277 (1979).
11. Fletcher, N. H. Mode locking in non-linearly excited inharmonic musical oscillators. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 1566-1569 (1978).
12. Jackson, E. A. Perspectives of Nonlinear Dynamics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992).
13. Hartley, R. S. & Suthers, R. A. Airflow and pressure during canary song: direct evidence for mini-breaths. J. Comp. Phys. A 165, 15-26 (1989).
14. Goller, F. & Suthers, R. A. Implications for lateralization of bird song from unilateral gating of bilateral motor patterns. Nature 373, 63-66 (1995).
15. Goller, F. & Larsen, O. N. A new mechanism of sound generation in songbirds. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 94, 14787-14791 (1997).
16. Fletcher, N. H. Bird song - a quantitative acoustic model. J. Theor. Biol. 135, 455-481 (1988).
17. Ishizaka, K. & Flanagan, J. L. Synthesis of voiced sounds from a two-mass model of the vocal cords. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 51, 1233-1268 (1972).
18. Bertram, C. D. & Pedley, T. J. A mathematical model of unsteady collapsible tube behaviour. J. Biomech. 15, 39-50 (1982).
19. Berry, D. A., Herzel, H., Titze, I. R. & Krischer, K. Interpretation of biomechanical simulations of normal and chaotic vocal fold oscillations with empirical eigenfunctions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 3595-3604 (1994).
20. Herzel, H., Berry, D. A., Titze, I. R. & Saleh, M. Analysis of vocal disorders with methods from nonlinear dynamics. J. Speech Hear. Res. 37, 1008-1019 (1994).
21. Thompson, D. J. Spectrum estimation and harmonic analysis. Proc. IEEE 70, 1055-1096 (1982).