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| List of contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Foundations: Singing And The Brain | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Birdsong and human speech: common themes and mechanisms | |
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| Birdsong and singing behavior | |
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| The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen): an alternative model for the study of songbird neurobiology | |
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| Songbirds and the revised avian brain nomenclature | |
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| The songbird brain in comparative perspective | |
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| Song Production And Its Neural Control | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From brain to song: the vocal organ and vocal tract | |
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| Peripheral mechanisms of sensorimotor integration during singing | |
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| Integrating breathing and singing: forebrain and brainstem mechanisms | |
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| Birdsong: anatomical foundations and central mechanisms of sensorimotor integration | |
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| Hearing And Recognizing The Song | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Song selectivity and the songbird brain | |
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| Song-selective neurons in the songbird brain: synaptic mechanisms and functional roles | |
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| Temporal auditory pattern recognition in songbirds | |
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| Learning The Song: Mechanisms Of Acquisition And Maintenance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Comparative aspects of song learning | |
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| Developmental song learning in the zebra finch | |
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| Auditory feedback and singing in adult birds | |
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| The anterior forebrain pathway and vocal plasticity | |
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| Circuits and cellular mechanisms of sensory acquisition | |
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| Chasin' the trace: the neural substrate of birdsong memory | |
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| The template concept: crafting a song replica from memory | |
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| Mechanisms Of Modulation And Plasticity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hormonal modulation of singing behavior: methodology and principles of hormone action | |
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| Sex differences in brain and behavior and the neuroendocrine control of the motivation to sing | |
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| Plasticity of the song control system in adult birds | |
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| Regulation and function of neuronal replacement in the avian song system | |
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| The Genomic Revolution And Birdsong Neurobiology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Studies of songbirds in the age of genetics: what to expect from genomic approaches in the next 20 years | |
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| Behavior-dependent expression of inducible genes in vocal learning birds | |
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| Genes for tuning up the vocal brain: FoxP2 in human speech and birdsong | |
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| On a Personal Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| William Homan Thorpe | |
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| My journey with birdsong | |
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| The discovery of replaceable neurons | |
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| Birdsong and monkey talk: an ethological journey | |
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| References | |
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| Author index | |
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| Subject index | |