Mechanisms of Communication and Cognition in Chickadees: Explaining Nature in the Lab and Field (original) (raw)

Allison H. Hahn et al. acoustics, and computer science, gives a fuller picture of animal behavior than any single field of study possibly could. We begin with a brief overview of the natural history of black-capped chickadees, followed by a general discussion of chickadee acoustic communication. We next discuss the vocal production and perception by chickadees, with a major focus on bioacoustic, playback, and operant conditioning studies. We also discuss the role that development plays in vocal production and perception, and we end with a discussion of studies examining the neural correlates associated with vocal communication in this species.