A research on the neural mechanism and the development of postnatally acquired auditory communication of songbirds.

动物在出生后通过与其他个体的相互作用获得各种能力的机制尚不清楚。本文研究了鸣禽在听觉刺激下识别序列信息能力的神经元和发育机制。本研究结果可能有助于揭示复杂听觉信息加工的生物学基础，如涉及人类语言理解的听觉信息加工。

Little is known about the mechanism by which animal spiecies postnatally acquire various abilities through the postnatal interaction with other individuals. The present research studied the neuronal and the develpmental mechanism of the ability of the avian songbirds to discriminate the sequential information in auditory stimulus. The results of this study may contribute to reveal the bioligical bases of the complex auditory information processing such as those involved in the speech comprehension of humans.