Sentences with phrase «with vocal learning»

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.

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

Before now, some scientists had assumed that the regions surrounding the cores had nothing to do with vocal learning.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Finally there is a choice of energetic ends to my day: a musical theatre vocal workshop with the ladies from Starling Arts: «Everything I know I learned from a musical».

With this partnership, Studytracks plans to collaborate with globally recognised, contemporary vocal artists to highlight the app's innovative way of learnWith this partnership, Studytracks plans to collaborate with globally recognised, contemporary vocal artists to highlight the app's innovative way of learnwith globally recognised, contemporary vocal artists to highlight the app's innovative way of learning.

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

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.

Rock Band is the groundbreaking platform that allows music fans and gamers to interact with music like never before — challenging players to put together a band and tour for fame and fortune while learning to master lead / bass guitar, drums and vocals.

Even if a team you'd love to join isn't hiring people with your skillset, there are people there that are vocal and always happy to help others trying to learn and succeed in that field.

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].