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Article Dans Une Revue PLoS ONE Année : 2010

Neural correlates of experience-induced deficits in learned vocal communication

Isabelle George
Laurence Henry
Hugo Cousillas
Martine Hausberger

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Songbirds are one of the few vertebrate groups (including humans) that evolved the ability to learn vocalizations. During song learning, social interactions with adult models are crucial and young songbirds raised without direct contacts with adults typically produce abnormal songs showing phonological and syntactical deficits. This raises the question of what functional representation of their vocalizations such deprived animals develop. Here we show that young starlings that we raised without any direct contact with adults not only failed to differentiate starlings' typical song classes in their vocalizations but also failed to develop differential neural responses to these songs. These deficits appear to be linked to a failure to acquire songs' functions and may provide a model for abnormal development of communicative skills, including speech.
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hal-01022553 , version 1 (25-08-2016)

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Isabelle George, Sandrine Alcaix, Laurence Henry, Jean-Pierre Richard, Hugo Cousillas, et al.. Neural correlates of experience-induced deficits in learned vocal communication. PLoS ONE, 2010, 5 (12), pp.e14347. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0014347⟩. ⟨hal-01022553⟩
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