Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants

Nature

Volumn 498, Issue 7452, 2013, Pages 104-108

  Lipkind, Dina ^a,b   Marcus, Gary F ^c   Bemis, Douglas K ^c   Sasahara, Kazutoshi ^d   Jacoby, Nori ^e,f   Takahasi, Miki ^d   Suzuki, Kenta ^d,g   Feher, Olga ^a,b,h   Ravbar, Primoz ^b,h   Okanoya, Kazuo ^d,g   Tchernichovski, Ofer ^a,b,h  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; SONG; SONGBIRD; TRAINING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCAL COMBINATORIAL CAPACITY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; FINCHES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES; LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84878675954     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12173     Document Type: Article

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