Song sharing reflects the social organization in a captive group of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

Hausberger, Martine; Richard‐Yris, Marie‐Annick; Henry, Laurence; Lepage, Laurent; Schmidt, Ingo W. Schröder and Bett ina E.

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“…This is done to maximize the effects of social learning in acquiring the response, given that previous studies have indicated that social learning is enhanced if the model and observer are in close physical proximity ( Aisner and Terkel, 1992; Coussi-Korbel and Fragaszy, 1995; Hausberger et al, 1995). It is important to note that we did not see evidence that rats were inadvertently pressing the active lever by trying to interact with their partner, because there was no preference for the active versus inactive lever in the early days of testing prior to the acquisition of drug selfadministration, nor was there a preference for one lever or the other in cocaine naïve rats that never received cocaine.…”

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The effects of social learning on the acquisition of cocaine self-administration

Smith

Lacy

Strickland

2015

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-Social learning models of substance use propose that drug-use behaviors are learned by observing and mimicking the behavior of others. The aim of this study was to examine the acquisition of cocaine self-administration in three groups of experimentally naïve rats: rats that were tested in isolation, rats that were tested in the presence of another rat that had access to cocaine and had previously been trained to self-administer cocaine, and rats that were tested in the presence of another rat that did not have access to cocaine.Methods-Male rats were reared in isolated or pair-housed conditions and implanted with intravenous catheters. Pair-housed rats were then assigned to drug-experienced or drug-naïve conditions. In the drug-experienced condition, one rat of each pair was trained to self-administer cocaine in isolation before the reintroduction of its partner. In the drug-naïve condition, one rat of each pair did not have access to cocaine for the duration of the study. For each group, the acquisition of cocaine self-administration was measured over 15 days in rats with access to cocaine but no prior operant training.Results-Rats tested with a drug-experienced partner were faster to acquire cocaine selfadministration and emitted more active lever presses than rats tested with a cocaine-naïve partner. Data for the isolated control group fell between the other two groups on these measures.Conclusion-These data indicate that the acquisition of cocaine self-administration can either be facilitated or inhibited by social contact. Collectively, these results support a social-learning model of substance use.

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The effects of social learning on the acquisition of cocaine self-administration

Smith

Lacy

Strickland

2015

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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“…However, the role of duetting by a mated pair has been hypothesized to help cement and maintain the pair bond in some bird species, and thus is potentially a sexually selected trait (Langmore, 1998;Todt & Hultsch, 1982;Wickler, 1980). Beyond these demonstrations of particular current utility of birdsong there are a number of more speculative hypotheses that are plausible (e.g., song as a group ''password'' (Feekes, 1982), for social cementing (Hausberger, Richard-Yris, Henry, Lepage, & Schmidt, 1995), or for family bonding (Ritchison, 1983)). Furthermore, ''song'' per se is not necessarily a valid unitary category in some species, which have multiple song types involved in mating vs. territoriality (Morse, 1970), and there can be overlap in the function of songs and calls (Marler & Slabbekoorn, 2004).…”

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The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective

2006

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Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integration of diverse strands of evidence. In this paper, I present a comparative perspective on the biology and evolution of music, stressing the value of comparisons both with human language, and with those animal communication systems traditionally termed ''song''. A comparison of the ''design features'' of music with those of language reveals substantial overlap, along with some important differences. Most of these differences appear to stem from semantic, rather than structural, factors, suggesting a shared formal core of music and language. I next review various animal communication systems that appear related to human music, either by analogy (bird and whale ''song'') or potential homology (great ape bimanual drumming). A crucial comparative distinction is between learned, complex signals (like language, music and birdsong) and unlearned signals (like laughter, ape calls, or bird calls). While human vocalizations clearly build upon an acoustic and emotional foundation shared with other primates and mammals, vocal learning has evolved independently in our species since our divergence with chimpanzees. The convergent evolution of vocal learning in other species offers a powerful window into psychological and neural constraints influencing the evolution of complex signaling systems (including both song and speech), while ape drumming presents a fascinating potential homology with human instrumental music. I next discuss the archeological data relevant to music evolution, concluding on the basis of prehistoric bone flutes that instrumental music is at least 40,000 years old, and perhaps much older. I end with a brief review of adaptive functions proposed for music, concluding that no one selective force (e.g., sexual selection) is adequate to explaining all aspects of human music. I suggest that questions about ARTICLE IN PRESSthe past function of music are unlikely to be answered definitively and are thus a poor choice as a research focus for biomusicology. In contrast, a comparative approach to music promises rich dividends for our future understanding of the biology and evolution of music.

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“…In European starlings, individuals sometimes share songs with other group members, and it has been observed that patterns of song sharing reflect the social organization. During the nonbreeding season, females tend to associate in same-sex social pairs, and pair members share most of their songs (Hausberger, Richard-Yris, Henry, Lepage, & Schmidt, 1995). Subsequent playback experiments have demonstrated that females are able to distinguish past song types.…”

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Socially Meaningful Vocal Plasticity in Adult Campbell's Monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli).

Lemasson¹,

Hausberger²,

Zuberbühler³

2005

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Campbell's monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli) frequently exchange vocalizations, the combinedharmonic calls, with individuals responding to one another's calls. Previous work has shown that these calls can be grouped into several structural variants. Adult females differ in their variant repertoires, which may change during their adult life, particularly after changes in the group composition. Playback of females' currently produced variants triggered vocal responses from other group members, whereas the same females' former, no longer used variants and those of stranger females never did. In contrast, former variants caused long-term cessation of vocal behavior, whereas stranger variants had no effect. Data showed that monkeys were able to distinguish between the different types of variants, indicating that these calls form part of a long-term social memory.Plasticity in vocal production is a widespread phenomenon in songbirds and some marine mammals, but for nonhuman primates comparably little evidence is available. Current theory suggests that primates have little influence over the acoustic structure of their calls and that vocal repertoires are under strong genetic control. If they occur, ontogenetic changes in call structure are usually explained as the results of maturational effects (Fischer,

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Song sharing reflects the social organization in a captive group of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

Cited by 125 publications

References 53 publications

The effects of social learning on the acquisition of cocaine self-administration

The effects of social learning on the acquisition of cocaine self-administration

The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective

Socially Meaningful Vocal Plasticity in Adult Campbell's Monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli).

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