Social performance reveals unexpected vocal competency in young songbirds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1687-1692

  Kojima, Satoshi ^a   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Reinforcement learning; Sensorimotor learning; Social context; Speech learning; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 79952128454     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010502108     Document Type: Article

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