The use of artificial songs to assess song recognition in imprinted female songbirds: a concept proposal.

ABSTRACT: We propose an experimental paradigm to examine acoustic features responsible for song preference and recognition in songbirds. Song preference in female songbirds is often influenced by early song experience. That is why several Estrildid species, including our subject species, the Java sparrow (Padda oryzivora), are known to show an imprinted preference for their father's songs. After confirming that Java sparrow females preferred their father's song compared to non-imprinted through song playbacks (first step), we repeated the playback tests in the same subjects using synthesized stimuli (second step). To create synthesized stimuli, we removed all the complex frequency modulations and subharmonics from song notes that we used for the first step playback tests to see the effect of

SUBMITTER: Makioka H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11408183 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature