Social Stimulation of Vocal Learning
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Major discoveries about how birds learn to sing have brought to                 light remarkable parallels with how human beings learn to speak.                Just as human beings learn to speak the language that is spoken                 around them, many species of birds learn to sing the song that is               sung by their neighbors.  Just as human speech develops from                    infant babbling, bird song develops from simpler vocalizations of               young birds.  Drs. West and King have discovered that this                      development of song by male cowbirds is guided by visual signals                from female cowbirds, just as signals from other people guide the               development of speech by the human child.                                                                                                                       This important discovery of social shaping of vocal repertoires                 is the basis for the current research project, which will explore               linkages between female perception and male vocal production in                 the development of avian communicative capacities.  The species                 chosen for study, the brown-headed cowbird, is especially                       appropriate because it can be bred in captivity, affording the                  opportunity to study the development of individuals with known                  communicative histories.                                                                                                                                        This research should lead to the delineation of new forms of non-               imitative vocal learning, the elucidation of how reward                         mechanisms function in a naturally-occurring form of cultural                   transmission, and the investigation of how the visual system                    operates at behavioral and neural levels to affect vocal                        development.
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