Factors limiting song acquisition in adult zebra finches

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 752-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuko Funabiki ◽  
Kazuo Funabiki
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Song Acquisition

Developmental influences on auditory perception in female zebra finches - is there a sensitive phase for song preference learning?

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Riebel
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Preference Learning ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Sexual Imprinting ◽  
Female Song ◽  
Sensitive Phase ◽  
Song Acquisition ◽  
Song Preferences

Abstract Song plays an important role in mate choice in oscine songbirds. Male advertising song is culturally transmitted resulting in individual- or population-specific song variants. Evidence is accumulating that female song preferences are influenced by those song variants they experienced when young, but the nature and timing of the acquisition process itself is still poorly understood. Song acquisition (as well as sexual imprinting) has been studied in more detail in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) than in any other songbird species, making it timely to review the consequences of early exposure on female song perception in this species. The current literature provides substantial evidence not only for preference learning but also for exposure-dependent perceptual fine-tuning. Sensitivity for song preference learning changes over the course of development. Preference learning does not seem to occur earlier than 25 days of age (hence paralleling the time course for song acquisition in males), but a potential endpoint is currently less obvious. However, studies so far have focussed on the outcome rather than the process of learning, and thus have not aimed at delineating a sensitive phase. Early acquired song preferences seem highly stable regardless of additional experience, which suggests a self-terminating process as previously found for sexual imprinting. There are still obvious gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the process of song preference learning, but these seem worthwhile addressing, as the consequences for mate choice might differ dramatically depending on when and from whom learning takes place.

Early life nutritional stress affects song learning but not underlying neural circuitry in zebra finches.

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Khulganaa Buyannemekh ◽  
Jessica B. Zito ◽  
Michelle L. Tomaszycki
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Nutritional Stress ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Zebra Finches

Opioid modulation of cell proliferation in the ventricular zone of adult zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 3681-3695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazia Khurshid ◽  
L. Shahul Hameed ◽  
Sivaraj Mohanasundaram ◽  
Soumya Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Ventricular Zone ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Taenopygia Guttata

scholarly journals Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Varkevisser ◽  
Ralph Simon ◽  
Ezequiel Mendoza ◽  
Martin How ◽  
Idse van Hijlkema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Vocal Learning ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Frame Rate ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Biologically Relevant ◽  
Video Images

AbstractBird song and human speech are learned early in life and for both cases engagement with live social tutors generally leads to better learning outcomes than passive audio-only exposure. Real-world tutor–tutee relations are normally not uni- but multimodal and observations suggest that visual cues related to sound production might enhance vocal learning. We tested this hypothesis by pairing appropriate, colour-realistic, high frame-rate videos of a singing adult male zebra finch tutor with song playbacks and presenting these stimuli to juvenile zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Juveniles exposed to song playbacks combined with video presentation of a singing bird approached the stimulus more often and spent more time close to it than juveniles exposed to audio playback only or audio playback combined with pixelated and time-reversed videos. However, higher engagement with the realistic audio–visual stimuli was not predictive of better song learning. Thus, although multimodality increased stimulus engagement and biologically relevant video content was more salient than colour and movement equivalent videos, the higher engagement with the realistic audio–visual stimuli did not lead to enhanced vocal learning. Whether the lack of three-dimensionality of a video tutor and/or the lack of meaningful social interaction make them less suitable for facilitating song learning than audio–visual exposure to a live tutor remains to be tested.

Parvalbumin-positive projection neurons characterise the vocal premotor pathway in male, but not female, zebra finches

2001 ◽  
Vol 917 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Martin Wild ◽  
Matthew N Williams ◽  
Roderick A Suthers
Keyword(s):  
Projection Neurons ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Positive Projection

Oestrogenic modulation of singing in male zebra finches: differential effects on directed and undirected songs

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Walters ◽  
Damary Collado ◽  
Cheryl F. Harding
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Differential Effects
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