Sentences with phrase «human vocal learning»

In recent years, songbirds» similarities to human vocal learning have piqued researchers» interests in using them as a functional animal model to study the neurological basis for Huntington's disease.

Not exact matches

Humans were thought to be the only primate with vocal learning — the ability to hear a sound and repeat it, considered essential for speech.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

One theory taking flight says only vocal - learning animals can sync up with musical rhythms, and those species make up an exclusive club: humans, some birds, elephants, whales, and dolphins.

Vocal learning skills alone don't necessarily mean that killer whales have language in the same way that humans do.

Songbirds, much like in humans, have a critical period in youth when they are best at learning vocal communication skills.

Both songbirds and humans are not born with the ability to speak or sing, but must learn their language or song by listening to others, a process called vocal imitation learning or simply vocal learning.

These neurons encode a memory of learned vocal sounds and form a crucial (and hitherto only theorized) part of the neural system that allows songbirds to hear, imitate, and learn its species» songs — just as human infants acquire speech sounds.

In both humans and songbirds, vocal learning depends on auditory guidance to achieve and maintain optimal vocal output.

Also, elephants are known to exhibit vocal flexibility and vocal learning, by vocally imitating environmental sounds and the vocalizations of other species, including different elephant species and humans [62], [63].

What I learned after deciding to be vocal about our struggles is that opening myself up to being a human, which is intrinsically flawed and naturally vulnerable, creates a platform for honesty with yourself and with those who hear you.

That's not surprising since humans have had a million or so years to learn the intimacies of vocal communication, while written communication has been around a mere 5,000 or 6,000 years.