Vocal learning is constrained by the statistics of sensorimotor experience

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

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 21099-21103

  Sober, Samuel J ^a,b   Brainard, Michael S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor variability; Multisensory integration; Sensorimotor learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; COMPENSATION; ERROR; FINCH; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; VOICE;

LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84871383003     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213622109     Document Type: Article

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