Vocal learning: Beyond the continuum.
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SUBMITTER: Martins PT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7145199 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
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Vocal learning: Beyond the continuum.
Martins Pedro Tiago PT Boeckx Cedric C
PLoS biology 20200330 3
Vocal learning is the ability to modify vocal output on the basis of experience. Traditionally, species have been classified as either displaying or lacking this ability. A recent proposal, the vocal learning continuum, recognizes the need to have a more nuanced view of this phenotype and abandon the yes-no dichotomy. However, it also limits vocal learning to production of novel calls through imitation, moreover subserved by a forebrain-to-phonatory-muscles circuit. We discuss its limitations re ...[more]
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