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List of works by Kazuo Okanoya

A Bird's Eye View of Human Language Evolution

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A direct neuronal connection between the telencephalic nucleus robustus arcopallialis and the nucleus nervi hypoglossi, pars tracheosyringealis in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published on 17 September 2011

A distinct role of the queen in coordinated workload and soil distribution in eusocial naked mole-rats

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A neural network model for generating complex birdsong syntax

scientific article published on 27 October 2007

A new method for quantifying the performance of EEG blind source separation algorithms by referencing a simultaneously recorded ECoG signal

scientific article published on 29 January 2017

A rhythm landscape approach to the developmental dynamics of birdsong

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A simple explanation for the evolution of complex song syntax in Bengalese finches

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Acoustical and Syntactical Comparisons between Songs of the White-backed Munia (Lonchura striata) and Its Domesticated Strain, the Bengalese Finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica)

article by Eri Honda & Kazuo Okanoya published April 1999 in Zoological Science

Acoustical cues for perception of emotional vocalizations in rats

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Activity budget, travel distance, sleeping time, height of activity and travel order of wild East Bornean Grey gibbons (Hylobates funereus) in Danum Valley Conservation Area

article by Yoichi Inoue et al published 2016 in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Affective valence of neurons in the vicinity of the rat amygdala: Single unit activity in response to a conditioned behavior and vocal sound playback

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

An invisible sign stimulus: completion of occluded visual images in the Bengalese finch in an ecological context

scientific article published in May 2013

Application of light-cured dental adhesive resin for mounting electrodes or microdialysis probes in chronic experiments

scientific article published on 30 July 2007

Arousal State-Dependent Alterations in Neural Activity in the Zebra Finch VTA/SNc

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Auditory Responses to Vocal Sounds in the Songbird Nucleus Taeniae of the Amygdala and the Adjacent Arcopallium

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Auditory observation of infant-directed speech by mothers: experience-dependent interaction between language and emotion in the basal ganglia

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Auditory-Motor Matching in Vocal Recognition and Imitative Learning

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Auditory-vocal coupling in the naked mole-rat, a mammal with poor auditory thresholds

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

Automatic Recognition of Element Classes and Boundaries in the Birdsong with Variable Sequences.

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Bayesian deterministic decision making: a normative account of the operant matching law and heavy-tailed reward history dependency of choices

scientific article published on 4 March 2014

Behavioral and neural trade-offs between song complexity and stress reaction in a wild and a domesticated finch strain

scientific article published on August 2014

Bilateral lesions of the medial frontal cortex disrupt recognition of social hierarchy during antiphonal communication in naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber).

scientific article published on 13 November 2011

Birdsong neurolinguistics: songbird context-free grammar claim is premature

scientific article published in February 2012

Brains for birds and babies: Neural parallels between birdsong and speech acquisition

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Cadherins: potential regulators in the faculty of language

scientific article published on 29 June 2014

Chick Development and Asynchroneous Hatching in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis).

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Cognitive bias in rats evoked by ultrasonic vocalizations suggests emotional contagion

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Comparative analysis of gene expressions among avian brains: a molecular approach to the evolution of vocal learning

scientific article published on 20 November 2007

Comparative analysis of mineralocorticoid receptor expression among vocal learners (Bengalese finch and budgerigar) and non-vocal learners (quail and ring dove) has implications for the evolution of avian vocal learning

scientific article published on 20 October 2011

Comparative analysis of protocadherin-11 X-linked expression among postnatal rodents, non-human primates, and songbirds suggests its possible involvement in brain evolution

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Comparative gene expression analysis among vocal learners (bengalese finch and budgerigar) and non-learners (quail and ring dove) reveals variable cadherin expressions in the vocal system

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Complex sequencing rules of birdsong can be explained by simple hidden Markov processes

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Context-dependent song amplitude control in Bengalese finches

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Contextual modulation of physiological and psychological responses triggered by emotional stimuli

scientific article published on 10 May 2013

Convergent differential regulation of parvalbumin in the brains of vocal learners

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Cooperation of deterministic dynamics and random noise in production of complex syntactical avian song sequences: a neural network model

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Cortical collateralization induced by language and arithmetic in non-right-handers

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Corticobasal ganglia projecting neurons are required for juvenile vocal learning but not for adult vocal plasticity in songbirds

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Cross fostering experiments suggest that mice songs are innate

scientific article published on 9 March 2011

Current source-density analysis of intracortical circuit in the granular retrosplenial cortex of rats: a possible role in stimulus time buffering

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Decision-making based on emotional images

scientific article published on 28 October 2011

Decreased fecal corticosterone levels due to domestication: a comparison between the white-backed Munia (Lonchura striata) and its domesticated strain, the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) with a suggestion for complex song evolutio

scientific article published on 27 August 2012

Defects in ultrasonic vocalization of cadherin-6 knockout mice

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Developmental learning of complex syntactical song in the Bengalese finch: a neural network model.

scientific article published on 30 March 2008

Different Reactions of Zebra Finches and Bengalese Finches to a Three-Component Mixture of Anesthetics

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Differential androgen receptor expression and DNA methylation state in striatum song nucleus Area X between wild and domesticated songbird strains

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Do songbirds hear songs syllable by syllable?

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Domestication changes innate constraints for birdsong learning

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Doubly sparse factor models for unifying feature transformation and feature selection

Dynamic expression of cadherins regulates vocal development in a songbird

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Early ontogenetic effects on song quality in the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica): laying order, sibling competition, and song syntax

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Effects of amygdala lesions on male mouse ultrasonic vocalizations and copulatory behaviour

scientific article published in August 2012

Effects of background noise on acoustic characteristics of Bengalese finch songs

scientific article published in December 2016

Evaluation of Pax6 mutant rat as a model for autism

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Event-related potentials elicited by pre-attentive emotional changes in temporal context

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Evolution and diversity in avian vocal system: an Evo-Devo model from the morphological and behavioral perspectives

scientific article published on 16 February 2008

Expression analysis of cadherins in the songbird brain: relationship to vocal system development

scientific article published in May 2008

Expression pattern of cadherins in the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) suggests innate cortical diversification of the cerebrum.

scientific article published in June 2011

Extracting state transition dynamics from multiple spike trains using hidden Markov models with correlated poisson distribution

scientific article published in September 2010

Fast Retrograde Access to Projection Neuron Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Fast voltage-sensitive dye imaging of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the rat granular retrosplenial cortex

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Feedback-based error monitoring processes during musical performance: an ERP study.

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Food rewards modulate the activity of song neurons in Bengalese finches

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Functional evidence for internal feedback in the songbird brain nucleus HVC

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Hierarchical emergence of sequence sensitivity in the songbird auditory forebrain

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Hippocampus lesions induced deficits in social and spatial recognition in Octodon degus

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Hormonal Responses to a Potential Mate in Male Birds

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Human speech- and reading-related genes display partially overlapping expression patterns in the marmoset brain

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

Identification of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata): Peptide isolation, cDNA cloning and brain distribution.

scientific article published on 6 February 2010

Individual differences in heart rate variability are associated with the avoidance of negative emotional events

scientific article published on 18 October 2014

Individual variability in verbal fluency correlates with γ-aminobutyric acid concentration in the left inferior frontal gyrus

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Interaction between musical emotion and facial expression as measured by event-related potentials

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Language evolution and an emergent property

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Learning, epigenetics, and computation: an extension on Fitch's proposal. Comment on "Toward a computational framework for cognitive biology: unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative cognition" by W. Tecumseh Fitch

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Limitations of a habituation task to demonstrate discrimination of natural signals in songbirds

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Local structure sensitivity in auditory information processing in avian song nuclei

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Localization of the cytochrome p450 side-chain cleavage enzyme in the inactive testis of the naked mole-rat

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Maturation-dependent control of vocal temporal plasticity in a songbird

scientific article published on 11 February 2017

Mice modulate ultrasonic calling bouts according to sociosexual context.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Modulation of Emotional Category Induced by Temporal Factors in Emotion Recognition

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Molecular characterization of the song control nucleus HVC in Bengalese finch brain

scientific article published on September 21, 2010

Mothers' multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants

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Music evokes vicarious emotions in listeners.

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Music playing and memory trace: evidence from event-related potentials

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Neural Evidence of Cross-domain Structural Interaction between Language and Arithmetic

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Neural basis of decision making guided by emotional outcomes

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Neural correlates of abstract rule learning: an event-related potential study

scientific article published on 20 July 2012

Neural correlates of expectation of musical termination structure or cadence.

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Neural correlates of song complexity in Bengalese finch high vocal center

scientific article published in June 2004

Node perturbation learning without noiseless baseline.

scientific article published on 9 December 2010

Observing real-time social interaction via telecommunication methods in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus).

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

On-line Assessment of Statistical Learning by Event-related Potentials

scientific article published in June 2008

On-line statistical segmentation of a non-speech auditory stream in neonates as demonstrated by event-related brain potentials

scientific article published on 7 June 2011

Optimal node perturbation in linear perceptrons with uncertain eligibility trace.

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Perceived moral traits of others differentiate the neural activation that underlies inequity-aversion

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Perceptual chunking in the self-produced songs of Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published on 29 December 2009

Perceptual organization of acoustic stimuli by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): II. Vocal signals.

scientific article published in December 1987

Phase-Specific Vocalizations of Male Mice at the Initial Encounter during the Courtship Sequence

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Physiological identification of cortico-striatal projection neurons for song control in Bengalese finches

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Population coding of song element sequence in the Bengalese finch HVC.

scientific article published in June 2008

Posterior Cingulate Cascading Delay Model for Timing Behavior

scientific article published in November 2017

Potential role of monkey inferior parietal neurons coding action semantic equivalences as precursors of parts of speech

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Rats show adaptive choice in a metacognitive task with high uncertainty

scientific article published in January 2017

Recurrent network for multisensory integration-identification of common sources of audiovisual stimuli

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Reduced γ-aminobutyric acid in the superior temporal gyrus is associated with absolute pitch

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Regulation of action selection based on metacognition in humans via a ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortical network

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Relatively high motivation for context-evoked reward produces the magnitude effect in rats

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Repeated Stops for a Red Light Induced a Left-Superior Asymmetrical Brain Activity in the Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Reflecting Approach Motivation of Anger in Elderly Adults but not in Younger Adults

Response characteristics of the rat anterior cingulate cortex to ultrasonic communicative vocalizations

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Revisiting the syntactic abilities of non-human animals: natural vocalizations and artificial grammar learning

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Rhythmic synchronization tapping to an audio-visual metronome in budgerigars

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Sad music induces pleasant emotion

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Segmentation of expiratory and inspiratory sounds in baby cry audio recordings using hidden Markov models.

scientific article published in November 2011

Semi-automatic classification of birdsong elements using a linear support vector machine

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Sense of Accomplishment Is Modulated by a Proper Level of Instruction and Represented in the Brain Reward System

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Sequential information of self-produced song is represented in the auditory areas in male Bengalese finches

scientific article published in May 2012

Sequential learning and rule abstraction in Bengalese finches

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Sex differences in audiovisual discrimination learning by Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published in February 2008

Sex differences in the telencephalic song control circuitry in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published in October 2005

Sexual communication and domestication may give rise to the signal complexity necessary for the emergence of language: An indication from songbird studies

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Song complexity and auditory feedback in birds: a comparison between two strains of Bengalese finches with different degrees of song complexity

scientific article published in October 2012

Song memory in female birds: neuronal activation suggests phonological coding

scientific article published in April 2010

Song motor control organizes acoustic patterns on two levels in Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published on 3 April 2008

Song syntax changes in Bengalese finches singing in a helium atmosphere

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

Songbirds and humans apply different strategies in a sound sequence discrimination task

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Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong

scientific article published in March 2011

Spatiotemporal properties of visual stimuli for song induction in Bengalese finches.

scientific article published in August 2005

Spontaneous vocal differentiation of coo-calls for tools and food in Japanese monkeys.

scientific article published in April 2003

Statistical learning in songbirds: from self-tutoring to song culture

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Statistical mechanics of reward-modulated learning in decision-making networks

scientific article published in February 2012

Statistical mechanics of structural and temporal credit assignment effects on learning in neural networks.

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Statistical segmentation of tone sequences activates the left inferior frontal cortex: a near-infrared spectroscopy study

scientific article published on 23 May 2008

Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants

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Synchronized tapping facilitates learning sound sequences as indexed by the P300

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Syringeal specialization of frequency control during song production in the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata domestica).

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Temporal adjustment of short calls according to a partner during vocal turn-taking in Japanese macaques

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

The Bengalese finch: a window on the behavioral neurobiology of birdsong syntax

scientific article published in June 2004

The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language

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The impact of domestication on fearfulness: a comparison of tonic immobility reactions in wild and domesticated finches

scientific article published on 17 August 2013

The implicit processing of categorical and dimensional strategies: an fMRI study of facial emotion perception

scientific article published on 26 September 2013

The integration hypothesis of human language evolution and the nature of contemporary languages

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The rate of telomere loss is related to maximum lifespan in birds.

scientific article published in March 2018

Trill-calls in Java sparrows: Repetition rate determines the category of acoustically similar calls in different behavioral contexts

scientific article published on 26 August 2018

Type-II cadherins modulate neural activity in cultured rat hippocampal neurons

scientific article published in September 2011

USVSEG: A robust method for segmentation of ultrasonic vocalizations in rodents

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Unconscious and Distinctive Control of Vocal Pitch and Timbre During Altered Auditory Feedback

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Untrustworthiness inhibits congruent facial reactions to happy faces

scientific article published in October 2016

Variability in the temporal parameters in the song of the Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica).

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Variation in auditory neural activation in response to strain-specific songs in wild and domesticated female Bengalese finches

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Very early development of nucleus taeniae of the amygdala

scientific article published on 18 October 2012

Visual statistical learning of shape sequences: an ERP study

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Vocal area-related expression of the androgen receptor in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) brain

scientific article published on 7 March 2008

Vocal control area-related expression of neuropilin-1, plexin-A4, and the ligand semaphorin-3A has implications for the evolution of the avian vocal system

scientific article published in January 2009

What do animals learn in artificial grammar studies?

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