Both human and nonhuman organisms are sensitive to statistical regularities in sensory
inputs that support functions including communication, visual processing, and sequence …

Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become
more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration …

Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing
over time under the influence of biological, cognitive, and cultural pressures. Cross-cultural …

Culture presents a second inheritance system by which innovations can be transmitted
between generations and among individuals. Some vocal behaviours present compelling …

Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The
songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a …

In the current literature, there are few experimental tests of capacities for cumulative cultural
evolution in nonhuman species. There are even fewer examples of such tests in young …

Unlike many species, song learning birds and humans have independently evolved the
ability to communicate via learned vocalizations. Both birdsong and spoken language are …

The long road of statistical learning research: past, present and future | Philosophical
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In humans, individuals' social setting determines which and how language is acquired.
Social seclusion experiments show that sociality also guides vocal development in …

Songbirds acquire songs by imitation, as humans do speech. Although imitation should
drive convergence within a group and divergence through drift between groups, zebra finch …