The Neuroethology of Birdsong

This volume provides comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and underscores the importance of birdsong research to behavioral and systems neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biomedical research.   Scaling the Levels of Birdsong Analysis Jon T. Sakata and Sarah C. Woolley  Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds Jon T. Sakata and Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama New Insights into the Avian Song System and Neuronal Control of Learned VocalizationsKaragh Murphy, Koedi S. Lawley, Perry Smith, and Jonathan F. PratherThe Song Circuit as a Model of Basal Ganglia Function Arthur Leblois and David J. Perkel Integrating Form and Function in the Songbird Auditory ForebrainSarah C. Woolley and Sarah M. N. Woolley Hormonal Regulation of Avian Auditory ProcessingLuke Remage-HealeyThe Neuroethology of Vocal Communication in Songbirds: Production and Perception of a Call RepertoireJulie E. Elie and Frédéric E. TheunissenLinking Features of Genomic Function to Fundamental Features of Learned Vocal CommunicationSarah E. LondonVocal Performance in Songbirds: From Mechanisms to EvolutionJeffrey Podos and HaCheol Sung