Superfast vocal muscles control song production in songbirds.

Birdsong is a widely used model for vocal learning and human speech, which exhibits high temporal and acoustic diversity. Rapid acoustic modulations are thought to arise from the vocal organ, the syrinx, by passive interactions between the two independent sound generators or intrinsic nonlinear dyna...

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Main Authors: Coen P H Elemans, Andrew F Mead, Lawrence C Rome, Franz Goller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2440420?pdf=render