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Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird
Exchange of vocal signals is an important aspect of animal communication. Although birdsong is the premier model for understanding vocal development, the development of vocal interaction rules in birds and possible parallels to humans have been little studied. Many tropical songbirds engage in compl...
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The Royal Society Publishing
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29515888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171791 |
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author | Rivera-Cáceres, Karla D. Quirós-Guerrero, Esmeralda Araya-Salas, Marcelo Templeton, Christopher N. Searcy, William A. |
author_facet | Rivera-Cáceres, Karla D. Quirós-Guerrero, Esmeralda Araya-Salas, Marcelo Templeton, Christopher N. Searcy, William A. |
author_sort | Rivera-Cáceres, Karla D. |
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description | Exchange of vocal signals is an important aspect of animal communication. Although birdsong is the premier model for understanding vocal development, the development of vocal interaction rules in birds and possible parallels to humans have been little studied. Many tropical songbirds engage in complex vocal interactions in the form of duets between mated pairs. In some species, duets show precise temporal coordination and follow rules (duet codes) governing which song type one bird uses to reply to each of the song types of its mate. We determined whether these duetting rules are acquired during early development in canebrake wrens. Results show that juveniles acquire a duet code by singing with a mated pair of adults and that juveniles gradually increase their fidelity to the code over time. Additionally, we found that juveniles exhibit poorer temporal coordination than adults and improve their coordination as time progresses. Human turn-taking, an analogous rule to temporal coordination, is learned during early development. We report that the ontogeny of vocal interaction rules in songbirds is analogous to that of human conversation rules. |
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spelling | pubmed-58307772018-03-07 Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird Rivera-Cáceres, Karla D. Quirós-Guerrero, Esmeralda Araya-Salas, Marcelo Templeton, Christopher N. Searcy, William A. R Soc Open Sci Biology (Whole Organism) Exchange of vocal signals is an important aspect of animal communication. Although birdsong is the premier model for understanding vocal development, the development of vocal interaction rules in birds and possible parallels to humans have been little studied. Many tropical songbirds engage in complex vocal interactions in the form of duets between mated pairs. In some species, duets show precise temporal coordination and follow rules (duet codes) governing which song type one bird uses to reply to each of the song types of its mate. We determined whether these duetting rules are acquired during early development in canebrake wrens. Results show that juveniles acquire a duet code by singing with a mated pair of adults and that juveniles gradually increase their fidelity to the code over time. Additionally, we found that juveniles exhibit poorer temporal coordination than adults and improve their coordination as time progresses. Human turn-taking, an analogous rule to temporal coordination, is learned during early development. We report that the ontogeny of vocal interaction rules in songbirds is analogous to that of human conversation rules. The Royal Society Publishing 2018-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5830777/ /pubmed/29515888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171791 Text en © 2018 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Biology (Whole Organism) Rivera-Cáceres, Karla D. Quirós-Guerrero, Esmeralda Araya-Salas, Marcelo Templeton, Christopher N. Searcy, William A. Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title | Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title_full | Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title_fullStr | Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title_full_unstemmed | Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title_short | Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
title_sort | early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird |
topic | Biology (Whole Organism) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29515888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171791 |
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