Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal
learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and …

Complex animal behaviors are likely built from simpler modules, but their systematic
identification in mammals remains a significant challenge. Here we use depth imaging to …

Recent experiments in divergent fields of birdsong have revealed that vocal performance is
important for reproductive success and under active control by distinct neural circuits. Vocal …

Songbirds provide a powerful model system for studying sensory-motor learning. However,
many analyses of birdsong require time-consuming, manual annotation of its elements …

Phonological Architecture bridges linguistic theory and the biological sciences, presenting a
comprehensive view of phonology from a biological perspective. Its back-to-basics approach …

Although vocal signals including human languages are composed of a finite number of
acoustic elements, complex and diverse vocal patterns can be created from combinations of …

Background Fusion of DNA methyltransferase domains to the nuclease-deficient clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) associated protein 9 (dCas9) has …

Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and
composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its …

Comparative studies of linguistic faculties in animals pose an evolutionary paradox:
language involves certain perceptual and motor abilities, but it is not clear that this serves as …

Coordinated skills such as speech or dance involve sequences of actions that follow
syntactic rules in which transitions between elements depend on the identities and order of …