Nonlinear Dynamics and the Synthesis of Zebra Finch Song

YONATAN SANZ PERL; EZEQUIEL M. ARNEODO; ANA AMADOR; GABRIEL B. MINDLIN

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD

Lugar: London, UK; Año: 2010

0218-1274

Behavior emerges as the interaction between a nervous system, a peripheral biomechanical device and the environment. In birdsong production, this observation is particularly important:songbirds are an adequate animal model to unveil how brain structures reconfigure themselves during learning of a complex behavior as song. Therefore it is important to understand which features of behavior are controlled by independent tuning of neurophysiological parameters, and which are constrained by the biomechanics of the peripheral vocal organ. In this work we show that many of the acoustic features in the Zebra finch song are in fact conditioned by the biomechanics involved.