The auditory CNS is influenced profoundly by sounds heard during development. Auditory
deprivation and augmented sound exposure can each perturb the maturation of neural …

Conspecific vocalizations differ from many other sounds in that they have natural incentive
salience. Our thinking about auditory responses to vocalizations may therefore benefit from …

Culturally transmitted communication signals–such as human language or bird song–can
change over time through cultural drift, and the resulting dialects may consequently enhance …

Vocal communicators such as humans and songbirds readily recognize individual
vocalizations, even in distracting auditory environments. This perceptual ability is likely …

Rhythm perception is fundamental to speech and music. Humans readily recognize a
rhythmic pattern, such as that of a familiar song, independently of the tempo at which it …

Addressing the neural mechanisms underlying complex learned behaviors requires training
animals in well-controlled tasks, an often time-consuming and labor-intensive process that …

Songbirds provide a model for adult plasticity in the auditory cortex as a function of recent
experience due to parallels with human auditory processing. As for speech processing in …

Highlights•Female zebra finches can recognize temporal regularity across a wide range of
rates.•Regularity detection extends to tempi far outside conspecific male song …

Many species are able to vocally recognize individual conspecifics and this capacity seems
widespread in oscine songbirds. The exact acoustic features used for such recognition are …

Animals continually assess their environment for cues associated with threats, competitors,
allies, mates or prey, and experience is crucial for those associations. The auditory cortex is …