Journal
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 1-10Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.08.007
Keywords
vocal self-stimulation; mirror neurons; state-reading; mindreading; female choice; female responses to males; stimulus-response model; neurobiology of understanding social behavior
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD047761] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD047761] Funding Source: Medline
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As research neurobiologists, we pursue specific questions, and the answers rendered are also correspondingly specific. Our goal, however, is to understand an entire system or the whole organism. To that end, it is not only useful, but sometimes also necessary, that we periodically reappraise a body of specific data in light of current knowledge of the field at large. In this spirit, the present paper reviews my work on the neural and hormonal mechanisms underlying the reproductive system of ring doves and others' studies of songbirds. By integrating these fields I then advance the concept that inherent in the avian breeding system is the mechanism of state-reading (a term fashioned after mindreading, which was coined by cognitive neuroscientists). State-reading helps to coordinate a sequence of endocrine and behavioral events to realize a desired objective, in this case, successful reproduction. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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