Bird-song learning (Marler)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Neuroethology subtree

Marler 1970 white-crowned sparrow: critical-period (10-50 days) for tutor-song learning; sensorimotor template; cross-fostered birds learn alien song; analogous to human language acquisition.

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