Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

Vocal production learning, the ability to modify the structure of vocalizations as a result of
hearing those of others, has been studied extensively in birds but less attention has been …

Animal models provide preclinical tools to investigate the causal role of genetic mutations
and environmental factors in the etiology of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Knockout and …

Humans and song-learning birds communicate acoustically using learned vocalizations.
The characteristic features of this social communication behavior include vocal control by …

Mouse ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are often used as behavioral readouts of internal
states, to measure effects of social and pharmacological manipulations, and for behavioral …

In 2005, Holy and Guo advanced the idea that male mice produce ultrasonic vocalizations
(USV) with some features similar to courtship songs of songbirds. Since then, studies …

Vocalizations play a significant role in social communication across species. Analyses in
rodents have used a limited number of spectro-temporal measures to compare ultrasonic …

Highlights•Mice do not show evidence of imitative vocal learning.•The lack of vocal learning
makes the mouse an excellent model system for understanding the genetic basis of human …

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The evolution of vocal communication in humans required the emergence of not only
voluntary control of the vocal apparatus and a flexible vocal repertoire, but the capacity for …