Audition and Hemispheric Specialization in Songbirds and New Evidence from Australian Magpies
Abstract
:1. Introduction
Limitations: Species Investigated
2. Song Control System, the Auditory System and Lateralization
3. A Life-Long Learner as a Model Species
3.1. Song Production in Australian Magpies
3.2. Song Control System in Magpies
The Syrinx
3.3. Sound Production in the Magpie
4. Testing Sound Perception and Laterality in Field and Laboratory Studies
5. Field Studies Concerning Audition in Australian Magpies
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Foraging for Scarab Beetles by Magpies Is Lateralized
5.3. Results: Extractive Foraging
5.4. Discussion
5.5. Additional Field Results in Magpie Foraging
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Study | No. (Subjects) | No. Scores (Behavioral) Total/Bracket: Majority of Responses | Left Eye or Ear/Right Hemisphere | Right Eye or Ear/Left Hemisphere | Authors |
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(1) Extractive foraging | 16 | 135 (135) | Left ear dominant | Kaplan, this paper, | |
(2) Head-turning during foraging | 20 | 266 (116) | Right eye dominant | Rogers and Kaplan 2006 [4] | |
(3) Tracking moving prey | 12 | 159 (155) | Left eye dominant | Rogers and Kaplan 2006 [4] | |
(4) Begging position of juveniles during foraging | 6 parent-juvenile pairs | 16/64 scores | Left eye dominant (begging juveniles) | Right eye dominant (feeding adult) | Hoffman et al. and Rogers 2006 [144] |
(5) Inspecting predator | 55 | 270 (compound score/various behaviors) | Left eye dominant | Koboroff, Kaplan and Rogers 2008 [148] |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKaplan, Gisela. 2017. "Audition and Hemispheric Specialization in Songbirds and New Evidence from Australian Magpies" Symmetry 9, no. 7: 99. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym9070099