Auditory preference for conspecific song in isolation-reared zebra finches

Braaten, Richard F.; Reynolds, Kerry L.

doi:10.1006/anbe.1999.1134

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“…These preferences may concern the presence of certain general features of songs. For example, naive and normally reared female zebra finches prefer conspecific song [9,40], which might help to maintain the species specificity of male songs. On the other hand, females prefer tutored song (normal quality) to untutored song (abnormal quality) [40] and larger element repertoires over smaller ones [21].…”

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“…Only a few studies have examined perceptual predispositions in naive birds. An experiment in which juvenile zebra finches (T. guttata) could elicit exposure to either conspecific or heterospecific song by hopping on a perch showed that birds hopped more on the perch generating conspecific song than on the one generating heterospecific song [9,10]. In the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), fledglings produced more begging calls in response to conspecific song than to heterospecific song [11,12].…”

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The interplay of within-species perceptual predispositions and experience during song ontogeny in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

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Vocal acquisition in songbirds and humans shows many similarities, one of which is that both involve a combination of experience and perceptual predispositions. Among languages some speech sounds are shared, while others are not. This could reflect a predisposition in young infants for learning some speech sounds over others, which combines with exposure-based learning. Similarly, in songbirds, some sounds are common across populations, while others are more specific to populations or individuals. We examine whether this is also due to perceptual preferences for certain within-species element types in naive juvenile male birds, and how such preferences interact with exposure to guide subsequent song learning. We show that young zebra finches lacking previous song exposure perceptually prefer songs with more common zebra finch song element types over songs with less common elements. Next, we demonstrate that after subsequent tutoring, birds prefer tutor songs regardless of whether these contain more common or less common elements. In adulthood, birds tutored with more common elements showed a higher song similarity to their tutor song, indicating that the early bias influenced song learning. Our findings help to understand the maintenance of similarities and the presence of differences among birds' songs, their dialects and human languages.

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The interplay of within-species perceptual predispositions and experience during song ontogeny in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

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“…Previous work has demonstrated, using different techniques, that several species of passerines have an innate recognition of conspecific song (Dooling & Searcy 1980;Nelson & Marler 1993;Whaling et al 1997;Braaten & Reynolds 1999) and in one case, a predisposition to memorize songs of own subspecies has been documented (Nelson 2000). Female canaries reared in acoustic isolation were found to be especially responsive to songs containing special elements, the previously described 'A' phrase (Nagle & Kreutzer 1997a).…”

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Directional female preference for an exaggerated male trait in canary (Serinusanaria) song

Draganoiu

Nagle

Kreutzer

2002

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Motor constraints on vocal production impose a trade-off between trill rate and frequency bandwidth within birdsong. We tested whether domesticated canary (Serinus canaria) females, reared either in acoustic isolation or in aviary conditions, had a preference for broad bandwidth songs with artificially increased syllable rates. The copulation solicitation display (CSD) was used as an index of female preference. As predicted, both naive and experienced females were especially responsive to syllables with a broad bandwidth emitted at an artificially increased rate. Female preference for supernormal stimuli provide support for the honest-signalling hypothesis and our results are consistent with recent findings indicating that production of song phrases maximizing both bandwidth and syllable rate may be a reliable indicator of male physical or behavioural qualities. We suggest that female preference for vocal emissions, which simultaneously maximize these two parameters, could be a widespread pattern within songbirds.

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“…Experience-independent templates underlying sensory perception may provide a basis for inter-DOI: 10.1159/000489115 preting important signals necessary for survival, whereas enduring experience-dependent changes in sensory perception can lead to adaptive responses that enhance an animal's fitness across its lifetime. Accordingly, behavioral and neurophysiological studies demonstrate that ontogenetic experience shapes perceptual biases [Peters et al, 1980;Clayton, 1988;Campbell and Hauber, 2009;Nagle and Kreutzer, 1997]; however, these changes may be built onto experience-independent sensory biases [Braaten and Reynolds, 1999]. Thus, it remains unclear whether experience-independent biases form the foundation of perception and subsequent early experience simply serves to strengthen or disrupt the bias.…”

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Species-Specific Auditory Forebrain Responses to Non-Learned Vocalizations in Juvenile Blackbirds

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Louder²,

Hauber³

2018

Brain Behav Evol

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Species recognition mediates the association of individuals with conspecifics. Learned cues often facilitate species recognition via early social experience with parents and siblings. Yet, in some songbirds, the production of species-typical vocalizations develops in the absence of early social experiences. Here, we investigate the auditory-evoked neural responses of juvenile red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), a nonparasitic (parental) species within the Icterid family and contrast these results with a closely related Icterid parasitic species that lacks parental care, the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). We demonstrate that immediate early gene (IEG) activity in the caudomedial mesopallium (CMM) is selectively evoked in response to conspecific non-learned vocalizations in comparison to 2 types of heterospecific non-learned vocalizations, independent of the acoustic similarity patterns between the playback stimuli. This pattern, however, was not detected in the caudomedial nidopallium (NCM). Because the red-winged blackbird is a parental species, the conspecific non-learned vocalization is presumably a familiar sound to the juvenile red-winged blackbird, whereas the heterospecific non-learned vocalizations are novel. We contrast results reported here with our recent demonstration of selective IEG induction in response to non-learned conspecific vocalizations in juvenile parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, in which conspecific non-learned vocalizations are presumably novel. In this case, selective IEG induction from conspecific non-learned vocalization occurred within NCM but not within CMM. By comparing closely related species with stark differences in the early exposure to conspecifics, we demonstrate that CMM and NCM respond to familiar vs. novel non-learned vocalizations in a manner that parallel previously reported regional responses to learned vocalizations such as conspecific songs.

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Auditory preference for conspecific song in isolation-reared zebra finches

Cited by 95 publications

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The interplay of within-species perceptual predispositions and experience during song ontogeny in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

The interplay of within-species perceptual predispositions and experience during song ontogeny in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Directional female preference for an exaggerated male trait in canary (Serinusanaria) song

Species-Specific Auditory Forebrain Responses to Non-Learned Vocalizations in Juvenile Blackbirds

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