Neural mechanisms of auditory species recognition in birds

• Published in: Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 94; no. 5; pp. 1619 - 1635
• Main Authors: Louder, Matthew I. M., Lawson, Shelby, Lynch, Kathleen S., Balakrishnan, Christopher N., Hauber, Mark E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2019
• Subjects: Acoustic noise; Acoustic properties; Acoustics; Animals; Auditory communication; Auditory discrimination; auditory forebrain; Auditory signals; Auditory stimuli; Birds; Birds - physiology; Brain - physiology; Central nervous system; Cochlear Nerve - physiology; Forebrain; Hearing - physiology; imprinting; Information processing; Neural coding; Neuromodulation; Norepinephrine; object recognition; Ontogeny; ornithology; Physical properties; Recognition; Salience; sexual selection; Species; species recognition; Species Specificity; vocal learning; Vocalization behavior; Vocalization, Animal - physiology; object recognition; auditory forebrain; imprinting; sexual selection; ornithology; species recognition; vocal learning

Auditory communication in humans and other animals frequently takes place in noisy environments with many co‐occurring signallers. Receivers are thus challenged to rapidly recognize salient auditory signals and filter out irrelevant sounds. Most bird species produce a variety of complex vocalization...