The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

primates in our own case,so that it is clear that vocal learning evolved quite separately in the two cases.Indeed it also appear ...

its repertoire size is no easy matter,but Kroodsma and Parker (1977) solved the problem in an ingenious way by taking every hund ...

are type A and are sung in long strings of the same type.They tend to be simple and stereotyped and are often shared between nei ...

package is not necessarily identical,however,nor is the sequence as the bird moves from one package to another.Every song is not ...

seem to be a random outpouring is in fact highly organized (Eens, Pinxten,and Verheyen 1989,1991b).A bout of singing lasts an av ...

copies the sounds of many other species,on average seventy-seven, including those that they hear in Africa as well as in Europe. ...

from African shrikes (Thorpe 1972) to Australian whipbirds (Watson 1969). Duetting is most common in the tropics,and this probab ...

Birdsong and Music Might our understanding of birdsong help to shed light on the origins of human music? The first point is that ...

literally hundreds of different bird species in a small area.To stand out against both this cacophony of sound and other environ ...

as we can ask them about it and discuss their feelings with them.When it comes to animals,however,we have no access to their inn ...

Goller,F.and Larsen,O.N.(1997).In situbiomechanics of the syrinx and sound genera- tion in pigeons.Journal of Experimental Biolo ...

Sorjonen,J.(1987).Temporal and spatial differences in traditions and repertoires in the song of the thrush nightingale (Luscinia ...

Carol Whaling Abstract Songbirds must learn to sing. Vocal learning involves several different processes, including selection of ...

vocalizations characteristic of their species.In this regard songbirds share a niche with humans,whales,and dolphins. The role o ...

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rate copy of the memorized template.This process requires hearing oneself sing;birds are unable to reproduce memorized songs if ...

points.It should be possible,if we knew where to look,to find neural changes that correspond to the duration of the sensitive pe ...

Nisdorf-Bergweiler,and DeVoogd 1995).Both studies uncovered few differences in the brains of control and experimental groups,ind ...

This innate contribution to vocal learning raises some interesting ques- tions:by what criteria does the naive bird select a son ...

This indicates that all of the phrase types we tested,not just whistles,can be recognized by naive fledglings,even though the ph ...