行動学会 MailNews (196) July 20 2016

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* Workshop on Evo-Devo of Vocal Learning and Plasticity

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* Workshop on Evo-Devo of Vocal Learning and Plasticity

Date and Time: July 31st (Sun), PM1:10 - 5:30

Venue: K011, Komcee, Komaba, The University of Tokyo

Chair: Kazuo Okanoya, Commentator: Atsushi Iriki


Human speech depends on our ability for vocal learning. Vocal learning
evolved independently in humans, birds, whales, bats, and elephants. How
this trait evolved? What is the relationship between vocal development and
vocal learning? What are common neural and molecular features? In this
symposium, we gather specialists in this field and discuss Evo-Devo of
vocal learning and plasticity.



Time Table


13:10 Introduction (Kazuo Okanoya)

13:20 Evolution of vocal learning: a deep homology (Erich Jarvis, Duke
University)

14:10 A Monkey Model System for Early Speech Development (Daniel Takahashi,
Princeton University)

15:00 Break

15:10 Predisposition of vocal learnability in hybrid songbirds( Kazuhiro
Wada & Azusa Sawai, Hokkaido University))

15:30 A review of sound production and developments in cetaceans (Tomonari
Akamatsu, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science)

15:50 Vocalization of horseshoe bat: Echolocation or Communication? (Kohta
Kobayashi, Doshisha University)

16:10 Possible functions other than vocal behavior of the vocal learning
system in birds (Yoshimasa Seki, Aichi University)

16:30 Source of vocal variation in birds and humans (Kazuo Okanoya & Yulri
Nonaka, The University of Tokyo)

16:50 Comments (Atsushi Iriki)

17:00 Discussion (Kazuo Okanoya)

17:30 Conclusion



Co-sponsored by Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Science (The University
of Tokyo), Okanoya Laboratory (The University of Tokyo), The Science of
Metal Time (Mext Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas)



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