Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.

It is known among aviculturists that cockatiels imitate human music with their whistle-like vocal sounds. The present study examined whether cockatiels are also able to sing "in unison", or, line up their vocalizations with a musical melody so that they occur at the same time. Three hand-r...

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Autor principal:	Yoshimasa Seki
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f231ad1819cc4162bab05f5d435633892021-12-02T20:14:50ZCockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256613https://doaj.org/article/f231ad1819cc4162bab05f5d435633892021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256613https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203It is known among aviculturists that cockatiels imitate human music with their whistle-like vocal sounds. The present study examined whether cockatiels are also able to sing "in unison", or, line up their vocalizations with a musical melody so that they occur at the same time. Three hand-raised cockatiels were exposed to a musical melody of human whistling produced by an experimenter. All the birds learned to sing the melody. Then, two out of these three birds spontaneously joined in singing during an ongoing melody, so that the singing by the bird and the whistling by the human were nearly perfectly synchronous. Further experiments revealed that the birds actively adjusted their vocal timing to playback of a recording of the same melody. This means cockatiels have a remarkable ability for flexible vocal control similar to what is seen in human singing. The proximate/ultimate factors for this behavior and implications for musicality in humans are discussed.Yoshimasa SekiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256613 (2021)
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description	It is known among aviculturists that cockatiels imitate human music with their whistle-like vocal sounds. The present study examined whether cockatiels are also able to sing "in unison", or, line up their vocalizations with a musical melody so that they occur at the same time. Three hand-raised cockatiels were exposed to a musical melody of human whistling produced by an experimenter. All the birds learned to sing the melody. Then, two out of these three birds spontaneously joined in singing during an ongoing melody, so that the singing by the bird and the whistling by the human were nearly perfectly synchronous. Further experiments revealed that the birds actively adjusted their vocal timing to playback of a recording of the same melody. This means cockatiels have a remarkable ability for flexible vocal control similar to what is seen in human singing. The proximate/ultimate factors for this behavior and implications for musicality in humans are discussed.
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title	Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.
title_short	Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.
title_full	Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.
title_fullStr	Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.
title_full_unstemmed	Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.
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Cockatiels sing human music in synchrony with a playback of the melody.

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