The recognition of spoken language has typically been studied by focusing on either words
or their constituent elements (for example, low-level features or phonemes). More recently …

Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from
observations to a model of the observed system, the author provides a general framework …

The following preface is the one that we published in Volume 1 of the Springer Handbook of
Auditory Research back in 1992. As anyone reading the original preface, or the many users …

Delphinids produce tonal whistles shaped by vocal learning for acoustic communication.
Unlike terrestrial mammals, delphinid sound production is driven by pressurized air within a …

Song production in songbirds is controlled by a network of nuclei distributed across several
brain regions, which drives respiratory and vocal motor systems to generate sound. We built …

The neuromuscular control of vocalization in birds requires complicated and precisely
coordinated motor control of the vocal organ (ie the syrinx), the respiratory system and upper …

Recent developments in biologically inspired robotics and artificial intelligence emphasize
the need for a systems view on motor control, termed embodied motor control. Embodied …

Spectrograms visualise the time-frequency content of a signal. They are commonly used to
analyse animal vocalisations. Here, we analyse how far we can deduce the mechanical …

Birdsong has developed into one of the important models for motor control of learned
behaviour and shows many parallels with speech acquisition in humans. However, there are …

This monograph arose from my significant confusion about how to understand nervous
systems as a physicist. Trying to provide a principled framework for addressing this question …