Sentences with phrase «vocal learning ability»

Jarvis says the new study «points us more firmly in a direction that vocal learning ability is functioning in a specialized motor system.

Testing vocal learning ability in social mammals usually requires observing the animal in a novel social situation, one that might stimulate them to communicate in new ways.

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That correlation suggests our musical ability grew out of the vocal learning system instead of being «a special - purpose ability,» Patel says.

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

This ability, known as vocal learning, is one of the underpinnings of language.

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.

In a paper published recently in the journal Family Relations, lead researcher James McKenna, director of the Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab and Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and his colleagues suggest that the origin of both colic and SIDS may be related to the gradual emergence of an infant's ability to voluntarily control the release of air through the vocal track, learned skills that are required for the development of speech.

Dolphin communication is suspected to be complex, on the basis of their call repertoires, cognitive abilities, and ability to modify signals through vocal learning.