Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech

Posted on Sat 17 August 2019 in Birdsong • Tagged with birdsong, language, speech, finch, starling, vireo, thrasher, syntax, phonology

We released a new paper about the sequential organization of speech and birdsong in Nature Communications. Our paper models sequential mutual information of both signals, and shows similarities in the long- and short-range organization between birdsong and speech.


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CCN 2018 Conference presentation: Learned context dependent categorical perception in a songbird

Posted on Tue 19 March 2019 in birdsong • Tagged with birdsong, machine learning, variational autoencoder, context, category learning

My conference poster and oral presentation from CCN 2018 on the context dependent categorical perception behavior I designed for songbirds


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Songbird Data Science Workshop 2018: AVGN video

Posted on Tue 19 March 2019 in birdsong • Tagged with birdsong, machine learning, variational autoencoder, UMAP, GAIA, GAN, unsupervised learning

My presentation at the Songbird Data Science Workshop at Birdsong 2018


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birdbrain: a library for viewing songbird (and bat) brain atlases

Posted on Fri 15 March 2019 in Birdsong • Tagged with MRI, atlas, songbird, canary, zebra finch, mustached bat, european starling, pigeon, brain, python

A python package for use with the songbird brain atlases focusing on stereotactic localization of the European starling, Canary, Zebra finch, Pigeon, and Mustached bat.


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Live behavioral updates on Gentnerlab Website

Posted on Mon 11 February 2019 in Birdsong • Tagged with pyoperant, RPiOperant, operant conditioning, behavior

Live plotting of PyOperant behaviors


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