The Neuroethology of Birdsong [electronic resource] / edited by Jon T. Sakata, Sarah C. Woolley, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper.

Scaling the Levels of Birdsong Analysis -- Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds -- New Insights into the Avian Song System and Neuronal Control of Learned Vocalizations -- The Song Circuit as a Model of Basal Ganglia Function -- Integrating Form and Function in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain -- Hormonal Regulation of Avian Auditory Processing -- The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication in Songbirds: Production and Perception of a Call Repertoire -- Linking Features of Genomic Function to Fundamental Features of Learned Vocal Communication -- Vocal Performance in Songbirds: From Mechanisms to Evolution.

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 Vocalizations Karagh Murphy, Koedi S. Lawley, Perry Smith, and Jonathan F. Prather The Song Circuit as a Model of Basal Ganglia Function Arthur Leblois and David J. Perkel Integrating Form and Function in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain Sarah C. Woolley and Sarah M. N. Woolley Hormonal Regulation of Avian Auditory Processing Luke Remage-Healey The Neuroethology of Vocal Communication in Songbirds: Production and Perception of a Call Repertoire Julie E. Elie and Frédéric E. Theunissen Linking Features of Genomic Function to Fundamental Features of Learned Vocal Communication Sarah E. London Vocal Performance in Songbirds: From Mechanisms to Evolution Jeffrey Podos and HaCheol Sung.