Culture as an evolutionary force: Does song learning accelerate speciation in a bat ring species?

Project Information

CULTSONG

Grant agreement ID: 804352

DOI

10.3030/804352

EC signature date 7 March 2019

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 492 911,00

EU contribution

€ 1 492 911,00

Coordinated by

MUSEUM FUR NATURKUNDE - LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR EVOLUTIONS- UND BIODIVERSITATSFORSCHUNG AN DER HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Hearing sensitivity and amplitude coding in bats are differentially shaped by echolocation calls and social calls

Author(s): Ella Z. Lattenkamp, Martina Nagy, Markus Drexl, Sonja C. Vernes, Lutz Wiegrebe, Mirjam Knörnschild
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 288/1942, 2021, Page(s) 20202600, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2600

Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition

Author(s): Mirjam Knörnschild, Martina Nagy, Danilo Russo
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 1883-1889.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.060

Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat

Author(s): Ahana Aurora Fernandez, Nora Serve, Sarah-Cecil Fabian, Mirjam Knörnschild
Published in: eLife, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.99474.3

A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait

Author(s): Morgan Wirthlin, Edward F. Chang, Mirjam Knörnschild, Leah A. Krubitzer, Claudio V. Mello, Cory T. Miller, Andreas R. Pfenning, Sonja C. Vernes, Ofer Tchernichovski, Michael M. Yartsev
Published in: Neuron, Issue 104/1, 2019, Page(s) 87-99, ISSN 0896-6273
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.036

Cross-species parallels in babbling: animals and algorithms

Author(s): Sita M. ter Haar, Ahana A. Fernandez, Maya Gratier, Mirjam Knörnschild, Claartje Levelt, Roger K. Moore, Michiel Vellema, Xiaoqin Wang, D. Kimbrough Oller
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0239

Pup Directed Vocalizations of Adult Females and Males in a Vocal Learning Bat

Author(s): Ahana Aurora Fernandez, Mirjam Knörnschild
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00265

Do Bats Have the Necessary Prerequisites for Symbolic Communication?

Author(s): Mirjam Knörnschild, Ahana A. Fernandez
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 11, 2020, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571678

Babbling in a vocal learning bat resembles human infant babbling

Author(s): Ahana A. Fernandez, Lara S. Burchardt, Martina Nagy, Mirjam Knörnschild
Published in: Science, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abf9279

Conference proceedings (1)

Exploring bat song syllable representations in self-supervised audio encoders

Author(s): Marianne de Heer Kloots, Mirjam Knörnschild
Published in: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR), 2024
Publisher: VIHAR
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.12634