Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong  and speech

Goldstein, Michael H.; King, Andrew P.; West, Meredith J.

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“…One powerful intrinsic factor is developmental stage, often expressed as sensitive periods, as exemplified in the development of vision, language, and social behavior (Harlow et al, 1965;Katz, 1999;Newport et al, 2001). Recent studies have shown that environmental factors such as social interactions and environmental richness also modulate plasticity (Newport et al, 2001;Goldstein et al, 2003;Cancedda et al, 2004). Barn owls pass through a similar sensitive period during which experience exerts an exceptionally strong shaping influence on sound localization behavior (Knudsen and Knudsen, 1989b).…”

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Hunting Increases Adaptive Auditory Map Plasticity in Adult Barn Owls

Bergan¹,

Ro²,

Ro³

et al. 2005

J. Neurosci.

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The optic tectum (OT) of barn owls contains topographic maps of auditory and visual space. Barn owls reared with horizontally displacing prismatic spectacles (prisms) acquire a novel auditory space map in the OT that restores alignment with the prismatically displaced visual map. Although juvenile owls readily acquire alternative maps of auditory space as a result of experience, this plasticity is reduced greatly in adults. We tested whether hunting live prey, a natural and critically important behavior for barn owls, increases auditory map plasticity in adult owls. Two groups of naive adult owls were fit with prisms. The first group was fed dead mice during 10 weeks of prism experience, while the second group was required to hunt live prey for an identical period of time. When the owls hunted live prey, auditory maps shifted substantially farther (five times farther, on average) and the consistency of tuning curve shifts within each map increased. Only a short period of time in each day, during which the two groups experienced different conditions, accounts for this effect. In addition, increased map plasticity correlated with behavioral improvements in the owls' ability to strike and capture prey. These results indicate that the experience of hunting dramatically increases adult adaptive plasticity in this pathway.

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Hunting Increases Adaptive Auditory Map Plasticity in Adult Barn Owls

Bergan¹,

Ro²,

Ro³

et al. 2005

J. Neurosci.

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“…Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), for example, have been shown to learn the proper use of referential labels only when provided interactive sessions with live tutors (e.g., Pepperberg, 1994Pepperberg, , 1998. Human infants have also been found to produce more sophisticated vocalizations when their mothers respond to their babbling in a contingent manner (Goldstein, King, & West, 2003). In contrast to such findings, filial imprinting has traditionally been viewed as a special type of learning that occurs largely independent of contingent interaction or overt reinforcement (e.g., Lorenz, 1935Lorenz, , 1937.…”

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Interactive and vicarious acquisition of auditory preferences in Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) chicks.

Harshaw

Lickliter

2007

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Studies examining the effects of stimulus contingency on filial imprinting have produced inconsistent findings. In the current study, day-old bobwhite chicks (Colinus virginianus) received individual 5-min sessions in which they were provided contingent, noncontingent, or vicarious exposure to a variant of a bobwhite maternal assembly call. Chicks given contingent exposure to the call showed a significant preference for the familiar call 24 hr following exposure and significantly greater preferences than chicks given noncontingent exposure. Chicks given vicarious exposure to recordings of another chick interacting with the maternal call showed significant deviations from chance responding; however, the direction of chick preference (toward the familiar or unfamiliar) depended on the particular call used. These results indicate that both direct and indirect (vicarious) exposure to stimulus contingency can enhance the acquisition of auditory preferences in precocial avian hatchlings. Precocial avian hatchlings thus likely play a more active role in directing their own perceptual and behavioral development than has typically been thought. Keywordsfilial imprinting; contingency; interactive stimulation; vicarious learning; Northern bobwhite Social interaction and contingency are known to have potent influences on learning across a wide range of organisms and contexts. Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), for example, have been shown to learn the proper use of referential labels only when provided interactive sessions with live tutors (e.g., Pepperberg, 1994Pepperberg, , 1998. Human infants have also been found to produce more sophisticated vocalizations when their mothers respond to their babbling in a contingent manner (Goldstein, King, & West, 2003). In contrast to such findings, filial imprinting has traditionally been viewed as a special type of learning that occurs largely independent of contingent interaction or overt reinforcement (e.g., Lorenz, 1935Lorenz, , 1937.A number of studies have directly examined the effects of stimulus contingency on the behavior of precocial hatchlings, the majority of which have focused on whether imprinting stimuli are capable of functioning as reinforcers. Such studies have demonstrated that precocial avian neonates will indeed work to be exposed to such stimuli (e.g., Bateson & Reese, 1968;Campbell & Pickleman, 1961;Eacker & Meyer, 1967;Gaioni, Hoffman, DePaulo, & Stratton, 1978;Hoffman, Schiff, Adams, & Searle, 1966;Meyer, 1968;Peterson, 1960). Relatively few studies, on the other hand, have examined the effects of contingency on the formation of filial preferences. Some of these studies have reported enhanced acquisition of filial preferences under conditions of stimulus contingency (e.g., Bateson & Reese, 1969;Evans, 1991;Johnson, Bolhuis, & Horn, 1985; ten Cate, 1989b), whereas others have found little or no difference in the level of filial preference between chicks provided with contingent versus noncontingent exposure to stimuli (Bolhuis & Johnson, 1988; ten Cate...

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“…Several recent studies have suggested that speakers do adjust their productions in response to listener feedback (Buz, Tanenhaus, & Jaeger, 2016;Goldstein, King, & West, 2003;Maniwa, Jongman, & Wade, 2009;Schertz, 2013;Seyfarth, Buz, & Jaeger, 2016;Warlaumont, Richards, Gilkerson, & Oller, 2014). Indeed, White (2013) has used listener feedback to train learners to produce alternations.…”

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What happens to large changes? Saltation produces well-liked outputs that are hard to generate

Smolek

Kapatsinski

2018

Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

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Smolek, A. and Kapatsinski, V. 2018 What happens to large changes? Saltation produces well-liked outputs that are hard to generate. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 9(1): 10, pp. 1-27, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.93 lab l a phon . Recent research has argued that saltation is diachronically unstable and documented one possible cause of instability: Learners exposed to saltatory alternations may overgeneralize them to intermediate sounds. However, this research has trained participants to criterion or excluded participants who did not reach criterion accuracy on familiar sounds. In first language acquisition, learners of languages with saltatory patterns cannot hope to receive more exposure to the pattern than those learning non-saltatory patterns. For this reason, we examined learning of saltatory and non-saltatory patterns after a constant amount of training. We compared saltatory labial palatalization to non-saltatory alveolar and velar palatalization. Participants showed overgeneralization of saltatory palatalization in a judgment task. However, saltatory alternations did not result in increased rates of palatalizing similar sounds, compared to non-saltatory alternations. Instead, saltatory alternations were less likely to be produced than non-saltatory alternations. These results suggest that large, saltatory alternations may be diachronically unstable because they are harder to (learn to) produce. Instead of being overgeneralized to intermediate sounds, saltatory alternations may disappear from the language by losing productivity and being replaced with faithful mappings.

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Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech

Cited by 535 publications

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Hunting Increases Adaptive Auditory Map Plasticity in Adult Barn Owls

Hunting Increases Adaptive Auditory Map Plasticity in Adult Barn Owls

Interactive and vicarious acquisition of auditory preferences in Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) chicks.

What happens to large changes? Saltation produces well-liked outputs that are hard to generate

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