Birdsong is considered a model of human speech development at behavioral and neural
levels. Few direct tests of the proposed analogs exist, however. Here we test a mechanism of …

The problem of respiratory motion has proved a serious obstacle in developing techniques
to acquire images or guide interventions in abdominal and thoracic organs. Motion models …

The role of social stimulation in avian vocal learning is well documented 1 . The separate
contribution of social, as opposed to vocal, stimulation has been difficult to address, however, …

All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they
inhabit as well. We suggest the term ontogenetic niche to signify the ecological and social …

Few studies have focused on mechanisms of developmental change during the prelinguistic
period. The lack of focus on early vocal development is surprising given that maternal …

We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation
in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly …

For effective communication, infants must develop the phonology of sounds and the ability to
use vocalizations in social interactions. Few studies have examined the development of the …

The problem of providing surgical navigation using image overlays on the operative scene
can be split into four main tasks-calibration of the optical system; registration of preoperative …

Female cowbirds raised in auditory isolation from males responded to the songs of male
cowbirds with copulatory postures. The songs of males reared in isolation were more effective …

Objectives This study sought to develop a fully automated framework for cardiac function
analysis from cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), including comprehensive quality control (QC…