Jon T. Sakata

This study investigates whether Trinidadian guppies prefer to group with familiar individuals, finding no evidence for familiarity preference despite a strong preference for conspecifics.

This study identifies acoustic patterns in bird songs and human music that are shared across species and linked to production and cognitive mechanisms.

This study uses an AI model to analyze zebra finch vocal interactions and identifies key features of their communication rules.

This study shows humans share acoustic preferences with various animals, with stronger agreement for ancestral and lower frequency sounds, and links preferences to music experience.

This study shows that deviations from stereotyped syllable sequences and timing in zebra finches do not reduce vocal learning and can even enhance it in later-developing birds.

The paper compares isochrony in human and zebra finch vocalizations, finding humans produce spontaneous isochrony while zebra finches do not, suggesting species-specific differences in vocal learning.

This study shows that perineuronal nets (PNNs) in motor circuits of songbirds are causally linked to the performance of learned vocalizations, with PNN degradation impairing song consistency.

The paper investigates the relationship between parvalbumin (PV) expression and perineuronal nets (PNNs) in songbirds and rodents, finding conserved regulatory patterns across species and developmental stages.