[HTML][HTML] What risk factors for Developmental Language Disorder can tell us about the neurobiological mechanisms of language development

T Boerma, S Ter Haar, R Ganga, F Wijnen… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Language is a complex multidimensional cognitive system that is connected to
many neurocognitive capacities. The development of language is therefore strongly …

Cross-species parallels in babbling: animals and algorithms

SM Ter Haar, AA Fernandez… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A key feature of vocal ontogeny in a variety of taxa with extensive vocal repertoires is a
developmental pattern in which vocal exploration is followed by a period of category …

Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird

I Adam, K Riebel, P Stål, N Wood, MJ Previs… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vocal signals, including human speech and birdsong, are produced by complicated,
precisely coordinated body movements, whose execution is fitness-determining in resource …

Fast retrograde access to projection neuron circuits underlying vocal learning in songbirds

DN Düring, F Dittrich, MD Rocha, RO Tachibana… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Understanding the structure and function of neural circuits underlying speech and language
is a vital step toward better treatments for diseases of these systems. Songbirds, among the …

Seasonal song ontogeny in western North Atlantic humpback whales: drawing parallels with songbirds

K Kowarski, S Cerchio, H Whitehead, D Cholewiak… - Bioacoustics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The use of song as a reproductive display is common in the animal kingdom; however, for
many taxa, little is known of song ontogeny. Male humpback whales produce elaborate …

Testosterone stimulates perineuronal nets development around parvalbumin cells in the adult canary brain in parallel with song crystallization

G Cornez, OT Shevchouk, S Ghorbanpoor, GF Ball… - Hormones and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Perineuronal nets (PNN) of the extracellular matrix are dense aggregations of chondroitin-
sulfate proteoglycans that usually surround fast-spiking parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory …

Automatic bird song and syllable segmentation with an open-source deep-learning object detection method–a case study in the Collared Flycatcher

S Zsebők, MF Nagy-Egri, GG Barnaföldi, M Laczi… - Ornis Hungarica, 2019 - sciendo.com
The bioacoustic analyses of animal sounds result in an enormous amount of digitized
acoustic data, and we need effective automatic processing to extract the information content …

Development of perineuronal nets during ontogeny correlates with sensorimotor vocal learning in canaries

G Cornez, C Collignon, W Müller, CA Cornil, GF Ball… - Eneuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
Songbirds are a powerful model to study vocal learning given that aspects of the underlying
behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms are analogous in many ways to mechanisms …

The gene expression profile of the song control nucleus HVC shows sex specificity, hormone responsiveness, and species specificity among songbirds

MC Ko, C Frankl-Vilches, A Bakker… - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Singing occurs in songbirds of both sexes, but some species show typical degrees of sex-
specific performance. We studied the transcriptional sex differences in the HVC, a brain …

Characteristics of song, brain-anatomy and blood androgen levels in spontaneously singing female canaries

MC Ko, V Van Meir, M Vellema, M Gahr - Hormones and behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Females of many northern temperate songbird species sing sporadically. However, detailed
descriptions of female song are rare. Here we report a detailed analysis of song in a small …