2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Understanding the mechanisms for realtime sensory-motor synchronization - a study focusing capability for vocal learning
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25285198
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Aichi University (2014-2017)
The University of Tokyo (2013) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
一方井 祐子 国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (00709214)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 実験心理学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To understand the mechanisms for realtime sensory-motor synchronization, this study focused on the capability for vocal learning of budgerigars and Bengalese finches. Budgerigars have larger plasticity for vocal learning than Bengalese finches, so that we could expect that budgerigars show better performance in synchronization for rhythmic sounds, if we follow the "vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis". The birds were trained to generate a series of key-pecking in response to a metronomic stimulus using an operant conditioning technique. The results revealed the Bengalese finches had a lesser performance than budgerigars; however, even in budgerigars, the performance were quite different from that of humans. Therefore, the study indicated further studies considering other factors in addition to vocal learning will be necessary to see the evolution and the mechanisms of the capability for rhythmic synchronization in perspective.
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| Free Research Field |
比較心理学
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