Presentation 2022-06-17
[Invited Talk] Hearing and vocalization in birds
Kazuo Okanoya,
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Abstract(in English) Songbirds learn their territorial and mating songs through auditory feedback. Their songs have complex and precise acoustic structures that are enjoyable to human listeners. It is amazing that birds attain such behavior with their small basilar papilla which is only 10% or less than human basilar membrane. In this talk, I will present basic psychophysical and acoustical characteristics of avian hearing and vocalizations and discuss how this remarkable specialization of auditory mediated behavior becomes possible in birds. I will also introduce mirror neurons that could connect hearing and vocalizations in birds.
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Keyword(in English) birds / songbirds / vocalizations / hearing / mirror neurons / psychophysics / operant conditioning
Paper # SP2022-1
Date of Issue 2022-06-10 (SP)

Conference Information
Committee SP / IPSJ-MUS / IPSJ-SLP
Conference Date 2022/6/17(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Chair Tomoki Toda(Nagoya Univ.)
Vice Chair
Secretary (NTT) / (Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
Assistant Ryo Aihara(Mitsubishi Electric) / Daisuke Saito(Univ. of Tokyo)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Music and Computer / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) [Invited Talk] Hearing and vocalization in birds
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) birds
Keyword(2) songbirds
Keyword(3) vocalizations
Keyword(4) hearing
Keyword(5) mirror neurons
Keyword(6) psychophysics
Keyword(7) operant conditioning
1st Author's Name Kazuo Okanoya
1st Author's Affiliation Teikyo University(Teikyo U)
Date 2022-06-17
Paper # SP2022-1
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) SP-81
Page pp.pp.1-2(SP),
#Pages 2
Date of Issue 2022-06-10 (SP)