Sentences with phrase «vocal learning in»

Observational evidences of vocal learning in southern elephant seals: a longitudinal study.

Sanvito, S., Galimberti, F. and Miller, E. H. Vocal learning in southern elephant seals.

In addition, the suboscine Procnias bellbirds have recently been shown to be vocal learners (92, 93), suggesting that there could have been a fourth gain or a regain after a loss of vocal learning in other suboscines.

The study offered the first glimpse of the process of vocal learning in dolphins.

Researchers have shown that the gene is associated with vocal learning in young songbirds, which produce higher levels of FOXP2 protein when they need to learn new songs.

Evidence for vocal learning in juvenile male killer whales, (Orcinus orca), from an adventitious cross-socializing experiment.

Not exact matches

This generally means overcoming suboptimal vocal habits we develop in childhood — men generally learn to push their voices too low, women make theirs too high.

I find that he's quite vocal in my life, once I learned that he wanted to speak to me and that it was possible.

You also claim she / other feminists «dismiss science as a male form of «authoritative knowledge» yet she has been very vocal and appreciative in her books and lectures about learning from a male OB (Dr William, if I remember right).

The vocal chords are tiny, but train them like an athlete, and learn to employ the cavities in your head and chest, and anyone can sing.

Fruit bats stand in for vocal - learning mammals in isolation tests to test language development

In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learninIn addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learninin the brain that control vocal learning called «cores,» parrots have what the scientists call «shells,» or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learninin vocal learning.

The finding, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by McGill researchers, highlights how learning and experience, including developmental auditory experience, can shape how the brain perceives vocal signals.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

One way to identify genes involved in vocal learning is to compare the genomes of vocal - learning birds with their nonvocal - learning evolutionary cousins.

Before the consortium came together, he had participated in sequencing the genomes of two vocal learners, a songbird and a parrot, but he knew he couldn't do all of the additional sequencing and analysis work that would be required to identify genes related to vocal learning — not by himself, at least — so he teamed up with Genome 10K, a project aiming to collect genomes for 10,000 vertebrate species.

While Jarvis and Genome 10K were deciding which avian genomes to sequence, with Jarvis making sure the list included vocal learners and species believed to be their close relatives, they learned about another collaboration in the works led by Guojie Zhang of Chinese sequencing giant BGI and University of Copenhagen evolutionary biologist Tom Gilbert.

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 diseasIn 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 diseasin using them as a functional animal model to study the neurological basis for Huntington's disease.

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

Vocal learning has also been observed in bats, some birds, and cetaceans, a group that includes whales and dolphins.

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning: when socialized with bottlenose dolphins, they shifted the types of sounds they made to more closely match their social partners.

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.

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

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 speecIn 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 speecin 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.

Thus, it has been difficult to establish confidence in whether specific avian traits — such as vocal learning, predatory behavior, or adaptations to aquatic or terrestrial habitats — reflect single or multiple independent origins and under what ecological conditions these events have occurred.

Vocal learning is rare in the animal kingdom.

The research complements other work being done in Dr. Roberts» lab, including an ongoing study funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative research program to understand how the brain functions during vocal learning.

Such plasticity might be involved in vocal learning, he suspects.

Understanding mechanisms of vocal learning at a cellular level is a huge step toward being able to someday address the biological issues behind the behavioral issues,» said Sarah Bottjer, senior author of an article on the research that appears in the Journal of Neuroscience on Sept. 4.

The next step for scientists will be to learn how the brain rewards correct matches between feedback of current vocal behavior and the goal memory that depicts memorized vocal sounds as songbirds make progress in bringing their current behavior closer to their goal behavior, Bottjer said.

USC scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds to recognize the vocal sounds they are learning to imitate.

(Movement elicited the same response in these areas in the other birds; they just did not have the vocal learning centers.)

«The vocal learning system is embedded within [an] ancient pathway»» designed to handle motor function that, in birds, controls their wings and legs, says study co-author Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University.

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

Evidence for vocal learning and limited dispersal as dual mechanisms for dialect maintenance in a parrot.

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

For this very special set for the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, Bischoff worked with four local Asheville, N.C. musicians willing to learn his complex, blissful compositions in less than 24 hours, and also asked his friends from the band People Get Ready to contribute vocals and percussion.

Scott is potentially the most intriguing person in the film — a combustible blend of emotional inarticulacy and vocal prejudice — but because we only ever see him in the context of his driving lessons with Poppy, we never learn what makes him tick.

Vocal authorities in the Learning and Development field are recommending we avoid building traditional training courses just because someone asks for one in favor of looking for more holistic «workplace performance solutions».

Many education organizations are vocal in their opposition to the emphasis on standardized tests in current policy, believing that they narrow curriculum, cost too much, and are of little use in improving student learning.

Included in the package: lyric sheet (photocopiable) music with vocals (to hear and learn the song) music without vocals

«At the beginning, eBooks were given a pass when they weren't up to snuff, but we're happy to see that readers today expect the same quality and accuracy in a digital product as they have learned to expect from quality print books, and are vocal when their expectations aren't met.»

«At the beginning, eBooks were given a pass when they weren't up to snuff, but we're happy to see that readers today expect the same quality and accuracy in digital product as they have learned to expect from quality print books, and are vocal when their expectations aren't met.»

And they learned that the biologist not only had been a vocal advocate of controlling outdoor cat populations to protect birds and other wildlife but also had sparked controversy as a graduate student in Athens, Georgia, for trapping free - roaming cats and taking them to the local shelter.

If your dog realizes that howling always makes him invisible to you and being quiet earns him your attention as well as all the great stuff he wants in life, he'll quickly learn to curb his vocal behavior.

But now, not satisfied with Tekken and his recent XBLA game Way of the Dogg (in which, by the way, you play a character unironically named America Jones who learns how to reverse time and punch dudes at Snoop's magical Dojo, setting video game narrative back another five years), Snoop Hedgehog is lending his vocal cords to a Multiplayer Announcer voice package for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

This sparrow is a commonly studied by those interested in vocal learning and song dialects in birds.

Zebra finches, red - cheeked little songbirds from Australia, are used in labs as a model for vocal learning.

Never has this philosophy been more important for law firms than now, when they are awash in Millennials; the generation most vocal about their desire for autonomy, learning and empowerment.

That's why Amazon built in some tricks to make it better learn your vocal inflections.