Song learning with audiovisual compound stimuli in zebra finches
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New research confirms previous findings that zebra finch males are able to learn some element of their songs from tapes. This research assessed whether song learning can be enhanced by simultaneous presentation of a song and a visual stimulus. It was found that simultaneous exposure to the tutor song and to the visual stimulus did not enhance song learning, compared with sequential exposure to the two stimuli. This research may have failed to find evidence of within-event learning because the mechanisms on which song learning is based differ from those forming the basis for auditory and visual imprinting.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1999
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Song learning from playback in zebra finches: is there an effect of operant contingency?
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Research into the effect of operant contingent exposure to playback song in zebra finches indicates that having operant control over the song stimulus by key pecking does not in itself facilitate the song-learning process. It is likely that live interaction with a tutor enhances song learning in zebra finches, but possibly only as a facilitating factor, rather than as a necessity. It is possible that any element of the environment that boosts attention or arousal during tutor song may enhance song copying.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1999
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Auditory preference for conspecific song in isolation-reared zebra finches
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Young zebra finches denied the opportunity to hear the normal adult song of their species still indicate a clear preference for hearing conspecific song during their sensitive period for song learning. It has been established that isolate zebra finches find conspecific song more reinforcing than heterospecific song. This research confirms earlier work with other species indicating that there is an early perceptual bias in song learning.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1999
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