{"id":113772,"date":"2019-03-02T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/building-the-tiniest-recording-studios-in-music-city-to-understand-vocal-learning-vanderbilt-news\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T19:00:55","slug":"building-the-tiniest-recording-studios-in-music-city-to-understand-vocal-learning-vanderbilt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/building-the-tiniest-recording-studios-in-music-city-to-understand-vocal-learning-vanderbilt-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the tiniest recording studios in Music City to understand vocal learning | Vanderbilt News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"795\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Wsb_4C43t4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Humans are not the only animals that can learn vocal communication from others, but it\u2019s a pretty exclusive club\u2014the only other members are songbirds, bats, whales, dolphins and elephants. At Vanderbilt University, biologists Nicole Creanza and Kate Snyder are studying vocal learning in zebra finches by building <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/universityfundingprograms\/2018\/04\/building-the-smallest-recording-studio-in-nashville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the tiniest recording studios in Music City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has to teach us how to cry, but things like speaking in human language have to be learned,\u201d said Creanza, an assistant professor of biological sciences. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have any exposure to language, you can\u2019t produce it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like human babies, zebra finches hatch knowing how to make some instinctual cries, or \u201ccalls.\u201d But juvenile male finches also learn songs from the adult males around them, much the same way human babies learn language. Like human babies, they babble at first\u2014in the finches, babbling is called \u201csubsong\u201d\u2014as they experiment to discover the vocal mechanics required to create the sounds they want to make. And they learn the same way babies do: by listening to themselves and editing their vocalizations so they more closely match what the adults are doing.<\/p>\n<p>To study the birds\u2019 learning process, Snyder built two dozen individual recording studios out of picnic coolers and sound foam and furnished them with everything a young bird fresh out of the nest needs, including swings, their favorite toys. The young birds bunk down with an adult male while the researchers collect every sound they make. \u201cWe can use a computational analysis to compare how well they learned and how quickly they learned over time through their entire development,\u201d said Snyder, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences. \u201cWe can compare the similarity of their song to their tutor\u2019s song, and that gives us a quantitative way of measuring learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research will continue throughout the year. Creanza and Snyder said this work can help us better understand how humans learn how to speak, too, and may shed light on the mechanisms underlying certain speech and language problems.<\/p>\n<p>Their research is supported by Vanderbilt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/strategicplan\/trans-institutional-programs\/tips-2015awards\/musicresearch.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Music, Mind and Society<\/a> TIPs program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/vanderbilt-video\/~3\/YDFd-leMkww\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Humans are not the only animals that can learn vocal communication from others, but it\u2019s a pretty exclusive club\u2014the only other members are songbirds, bats, whales, dolphins and elephants. At Vanderbilt University, biologists Nicole Creanza and Kate Snyder are studying vocal learning in zebra finches by building the tiniest recording studios in Music City. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}