Animal Behavior - Biology 4200/5430
Bowling Green State University, Fall 2009
Bird Song
"The view of the brain as a tabula rasa, a blank slate, all too long a basis for the thinking of learning theorists, is patently absurd"
-- Peter Marler, 1996
Outline
Birdsong
Human Language Learning
Parallels between the two
Reading Assigments
WikiBooks:
Chapter 2 - Learning and Memory
WikiBooks:
Bird Song - Behavioral Examples
WikiBooks:
Human Language Learning - Behavioral Examples
WikiBooks:
The Parallels between the two - Behavioral Examples
Links of Interest
Doug Nelson -
White-crowned Sparrow Song Learning
Patricia Kuhl -
Human Speech Perception
last modified: 8/31/07
Final Exam is scheduled for Fri, Dec 18, 1:15pm in LSC 112
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