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Age and Experience Affect the Recruitment of New Neurons to the Song System of Zebra Finches during the Sensitive Period for Song Learning: Ditto for Vocal Learning in Humans?
Author(s) -
WILBRECHT LINDA,
NOTTEBOHM FERNANDO
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1308.049
Subject(s) - vocal learning , imitation , psychology , auditory feedback , affect (linguistics) , observational learning , sensory system , cognition , forebrain , association (psychology) , songbird , cognitive psychology , zebra finch , social learning , neuroscience , developmental psychology , communication , biology , experiential learning , central nervous system , paleontology , mathematics education , psychotherapist , pedagogy
A bstract : Vocal learning in songbirds and humans is a complex learned skill with sensory, motor, and social aspects. It culminates in the imitation of sounds produced by other, usually older individuals. Song learning and language learning may differ in their cognitive content, but both require coordination of auditory feedback and fine motor control, which may be supported by similar brain structures. Vocal learning in birds as in humans requires the use of forebrain networks; in songbirds these networks are thought to be related, in part, to the frontal association cortex‐basal ganglia loops that mature in humans at adolescence.