birdsongacquisition

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ct that song acquisition of song sparrows is partly dependent on innate, geic factors. (Nowicki, 1998)  Ichard Braaten et al. (2020) exposed young male and female zebra finches to 14 zebra finch and 14 starling songs presented from a loudspeaker to explore whether zebra finches prefer conspecific over heterospecific songs.  The recognition memory for these songs was tested in a unique fashion. The birds were trained to discriminate between familiar and novel songs. (Braaten et. al, 2020)  Birds were conditioned to hop to the feeder perch upon hearing 16 familiar songs through the presentation of food rewards. If the birds responded to a novel song, the houselight was turned off for 15 s as a punishment.  Following discrimination training, familiar and novel probe songs were played without reinforcement to test the recognition memory for songs.  The birds responded to the presentation of familiar conspecific and heterospecific songs equally well, so they did not prefer conspecific over heterospecific songs. (Braaten et. al, 2020)  Zebra finches song acquisition is more dependent on learning and imitating than innate song recognition. Birdsong Acquisition: Nature vs. Nurture Auditory Feedback Theory  Song development de。