Freedom and rules: The acquisition and reprogramming of a bird's learned song

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5724, 2005, Pages 1046-1049

  Gardner, Timothy J ^a   Naef, Felix ^a,b,c   Nottebohm, Fernando ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CANARY SONGS; PHRASING; SONG CONSTRAINTS; SYNTHETIC SONGS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

SONGBIRD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANARY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUND; STEREOTYPY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CANARIES; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTOSTERONE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES;

EID: 18644367916     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108214     Document Type: Article

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25. Supported by U.S. Public Health Service grants MH18343 and MH63132, the Mary Flaggler Cary Charitable Foundation, the Nell and Herbert Singer Foundation, and the Phipps Family Foundation. F. Naef was supported by a Bristol Meyers-Squibb fellowship. We thank G. Mindlin and S. Ribeiro for discussions that influenced experimental design; B. Olveczky for comments on the manuscript; the Center for Physics and Biology at Rockefeller University for computing resources and advice; D. Jackson, S. Sepe, and H. Ecklund for excellent care of our birds; and the staff of the Rockefeller University Field Research Center.