Juvenile zebra finches learn the underlying structural regularities of their fathers’ song

Juvenile zebra finches learn the underlying structural regularities of their fathers’ song

Natural behaviors, such as foraging, tool use, social interaction, birdsong, and language, exhibit branching sequential structure. Such structure should be learnable if it can be inferred from the statistics of early experience. We report that juvenile zebra finches learn such sequential structure i...

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Main Authors: Otilia eMenyhart, Oren eKolodny, Michael H. Goldstein, Timothy J. DeVoogd, Shimon eEdelman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
statistical learning
birdsong
Zebra finch
Vocal Development
song structure
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00571/full

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