Nottebohm F, Alvarez-Buylla A, Cynx J, Kirn J, Ling C Y, Nottebohm M, Suter R, Tolles A, Williams H
Rockefeller University Field Research Center, Millbrook, New York 12545.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1990 Aug 29;329(1253):115-24. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1990.0156.
The vocal control system of oscine songbirds has some perplexing properties--e.g. laterality, adult neurogenesis, neuronal replacement--that are not predicted by common views of how vocal learning takes place. Similarly, we do not understand the relation between the direct pathway for the control of learned song and the recursive pathway necessary for song learning. Some of the paradoxes of the vocal system of birds may disappear once the relation between the perception and production of learned vocalizations is better understood. To some extent, perception and production may be two closely related states of a same system.
鸣禽的发声控制系统具有一些令人困惑的特性——例如，单侧性、成年神经发生、神经元更替——这些特性在关于发声学习过程的常见观点中并未得到预测。同样，我们也不理解控制习得歌声的直接通路与歌声学习所需的递归通路之间的关系。一旦我们能更好地理解习得发声的感知与产生之间的关系，鸟类发声系统的一些悖论可能就会消失。在某种程度上，感知和产生可能是同一系统的两种紧密相关的状态。
