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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"oscine songbirds"”.
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Assessing the Phylogenetic and Cultural Content of Learned Song
<p>In the oscine songbirds, song is learned by a juvenile from a tutor of the same species, in a pattern that is analogous to human language, and likewise has the potential to change over time by cultural evolution. The similarities between human languages have been studied for centuries, but …
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Analysis of Immediate-Early Gene Expression in the Songbird Brain Following Song Presentation
<p>The song system of oscine songbirds consists of the auditory and motor pathways used in the acquisition and production of learned song and provides powerful material for the study of neuronal and behavioral plasticity, both developmentally and during adult life. The purpose of this thesis is to …
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New Insights into the Evolution of Learned Vocalization from the Australian Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia castanotis
… to localize. None of these limitations apply in oscine songbirds. In oscines, the vocal learning brain system is more segregated from non-vocal movements; There are over 4000 oscines, and most if not all are thought to be vocal learners; their suboscine outgroup clade is also species rich and …