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Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants

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  • Dina Lipkind

    (Hunter College, City University of New York
    City College, City University of New York)

  • Gary F. Marcus

    (New York University)

  • Douglas K. Bemis

    (New York University)

  • Kazutoshi Sasahara

    (Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

  • Nori Jacoby

    (The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
    Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel)

  • Miki Takahasi

    (Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

  • Kenta Suzuki

    (Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    JST ERATO Okanoya Emotional Information Project, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

  • Olga Feher

    (Hunter College, City University of New York
    City College, City University of New York
    The City University of New York Graduate Center)

  • Primoz Ravbar

    (City College, City University of New York
    The City University of New York Graduate Center)

  • Kazuo Okanoya

    (Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    JST ERATO Okanoya Emotional Information Project, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

  • Ofer Tchernichovski

    (Hunter College, City University of New York
    City College, City University of New York
    The City University of New York Graduate Center)

Abstract

In two species of songbirds and in pre-lingual human infants, vocal transitions across syllables are acquired slowly, one by one, indicating that combinatorial ability is not the starting point of vocal development but a laboriously achieved end point.

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  • Dina Lipkind & Gary F. Marcus & Douglas K. Bemis & Kazutoshi Sasahara & Nori Jacoby & Miki Takahasi & Kenta Suzuki & Olga Feher & Primoz Ravbar & Kazuo Okanoya & Ofer Tchernichovski, 2013. "Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants," Nature, Nature, vol. 498(7452), pages 104-108, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:498:y:2013:i:7452:d:10.1038_nature12173
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12173
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    1. Shota Saito & Yoshito Hirata & Kazutoshi Sasahara & Hideyuki Suzuki, 2015. "Tracking Time Evolution of Collective Attention Clusters in Twitter: Time Evolving Nonnegative Matrix Factorisation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-17, September.
    2. Fabian Heim & Ezequiel Mendoza & Avani Koparkar & Daniela Vallentin, 2024. "Disinhibition enables vocal repertoire expansion after a critical period," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.

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