Brauth, S. E., Heaton, J. T., Shea, S. D., Durand, S. E., Hall, W. S. (January 1997) Functional anatomy of forebrain vocal control pathways in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 807. pp. 368-85. ISSN 0077-8923 (Print)0077-8923
Abstract
Budgerigars throughout life are capable of learning to produce many different sounds including those of human speech. Like humans, budgerigars use multiple craniomotor systems and coordinate both orosensory and auditory feedback in specialized forebrain nuclei. Although budgerigar auditory-vocal learning has a different evolutionary origin from that of human speech, both the human and budgerigar systems can control F0 and can alter the distribution of energy in spectral bands by adjusting the filter properties of the vocal tract. This allows budgerigars to produce an extremely diverse array of calls including many broadband and highly complex sounds.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Animals Brain Mapping Humans Laryngeal Nerves/physiology Larynx/anatomy & histology/physiology Learning *Parrots Pharynx/anatomy & histology/innervation Prosencephalon/*anatomy & histology/*physiology Tongue/anatomy & histology/innervation Trachea/anatomy & histology/innervation *Vocalization, Animal |
| Subjects: | organism description > animal organism description > animal > bird organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > organs types and functions > brain organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > neural networks |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Shea lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 15 January 1997 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2014 17:40 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2014 17:40 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/29504 |
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