Contingent parental responses are naturally associated with zebra finch song learning

Carouso-Peck, Samantha; Menyhárt, Otília; DeVoogd, Timothy J.; Goldstein, Michael H.

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.04.019

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“…Similarly, young birds learn to participate in adult interactions. Male zebra finches learn their courtship song from their father, but can also receive feedback from other individuals within their social environment [149]. It has even been argued that learning of species-specific rhythms starts before birth, with possible long-term effects on vocal and social development [150].…”

Section: Proximate Causes Of Dyadic Interactions: Ontogeny and Mechanismsmentioning

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Rhythm in dyadic interactions

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Soma

Anichini

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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This review paper discusses rhythmic interactions and distinguishes them from non-rhythmic interactions. We report on communicative behaviours in social and sexual contexts, as found in dyads of humans, non-human primates, non-primate mammals, birds, anurans and insects. We discuss observed instances of rhythm in dyadic interactions, identify knowledge gaps and propose suggestions for future research. We find that most studies on rhythmicity in interactive signals mainly focus on one modality (acoustic or visual) and we suggest more work should be performed on multimodal signals. Although the social functions of interactive rhythms have been fairly well described, developmental research on rhythms used to regulate social interactions is still lacking. Future work should also focus on identifying the exact timing mechanisms involved. Rhythmic signalling behaviours are widespread and critical in regulating social interactions across taxa, but many questions remain unexplored. A multidisciplinary, comparative cross-species approach may help provide answers. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’.

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Section: Proximate Causes Of Dyadic Interactions: Ontogeny and Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhythm in dyadic interactions

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Soma

Anichini

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Social reinforcement of learning from parent birds may also play a role in clutchspecific differences in learning accuracy, as parents are likely to show variation in the levels of reinforcement provided. In zebra finches, social feedback from both the father and mother was correlated with song learning, with birds that received appropriate input producing more faithful copies of fathers' songs (Carouso-Peck et al, 2020).…”

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“…We included a random effect of the clutch ID to account for similarities among nestmates that are not due to learning from the social father. This could be due to factors including, but not limited to, common rearing conditions, differences in the quality of parental care, the sizes of broods, and the identity of social mothers [whose song preference and social feedback may influence the song learning and production of her sons (Carouso-Peck and Goldstein, 2019;Carouso-Peck et al, 2020)]. Because Java sparrow songs can change with age following crystallization (Ota and Soma, 2014), we included a fixed effect of log-transformed age in the model.…”

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“…As song production may incur neural costs during development (Gil and Gahr, 2002), early developmental stress, such as sibling competition (Soma et al, 2006) or nutritional stress (Nowicki et al, 1998), may influence adult songs. Social interactions may guide song production through fraternal inhibition (Tchernichovski and Nottebohm, 1998) and social reinforcement from parents (Carouso-Peck et al, 2020). Finally, both laying order and maternal androgens may contribute to song development (Soma et al, 2009).…”

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Like Father Like Son: Cultural and Genetic Contributions to Song Inheritance in an Estrildid Finch

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Social learning of vocalizations is integral to song inheritance in oscine passerines. However, other factors, such as genetic inheritance and the developmental environment, can also influence song phenotype. The relative contributions of these factors can have a strong influence on song evolution and may affect important evolutionary processes such as speciation. However, relative contributions are well-described only for a few species and are likely to vary with taxonomy. Using archived song data, we examined patterns of song inheritance in a domestic population of Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora), some of which had been cross-fostered. Six-hundred and seventy-six songs from 73 birds were segmented and classified into notes and note subtypes (N = 22,972), for which a range of acoustic features were measured. Overall, we found strong evidence for cultural inheritance of song structure and of the acoustic characteristics of notes; sons’ song syntax and note composition were similar to that of their social fathers and were not influenced by genetic relatedness. For vocal consistency of note subtypes, a measure of vocal performance, there was no apparent evidence of social or genetic inheritance, but both age and developmental environment influenced consistency. These findings suggest that high learning fidelity of song material, i.e., song structure and note characteristics, could allow novel variants to be preserved and accumulate over generations, with implications for evolution and conservation. However, differences in vocal performance do not show strong links to cultural inheritance, instead potentially serving as condition dependent signals.

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“…We recently discovered a similar learning system in the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata ), in which non-vocal contingent visual responses from females affect song outcomes in juvenile males [11,12]. Non-singing female zebra finches learn strong preferences for particular songs [16], and female listeners have long been known to affect male song learning (e.g.…”

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Evolving the capacity for socially guided vocal learning in songbirds: a preliminary study

Carouso-Peck

Goldstein

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Socially guided vocal learning, the ability to use contingent reactions from social partners to guide immature vocalizations to more mature forms, is thought to be a rare ability known to be used only by humans, marmosets and two unrelated songbird species (brown-headed cowbirds and zebra finches). However, this learning strategy has never been investigated in the vast majority of species that are known to modify their vocalizations over development. We propose a novel, preliminary evolutionary modelling approach that uses ecological, reproductive and developmental traits to predict which species may incorporate social influences as part of their vocal learning system. We demonstrate our model using data from 28 passerines. We found three highly predictive traits: temporal overlap between sensory (memorization) and sensorimotor (practice) phases of song learning, song used for mate attraction, and social gregariousness outside the breeding season. Species with these traits were distributed throughout the clade, suggesting that a trait-based approach may yield new insights into the evolution of learning strategies that cannot be gleaned from phylogenetic relatedness alone. Our model suggests several previously uninvestigated and unexpected species as likely socially guided vocal learners and offers new insight into the evolution and development of vocal learning. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Vocal learning in animals and humans’.

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Contingent parental responses are naturally associated with zebra finch song learning

Cited by 23 publications

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Rhythm in dyadic interactions

Rhythm in dyadic interactions

Like Father Like Son: Cultural and Genetic Contributions to Song Inheritance in an Estrildid Finch

Evolving the capacity for socially guided vocal learning in songbirds: a preliminary study

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