摘要：

Oscine song learning has an auditory phase dur-ing which a tutor song is learned and a sensorimotor phase of successive improvement that leads to adult song. A theoretical framework for song learning is presented based on the hypothesis that the primary role of the anteriorforebrainpathway of the song system is to transform an auditory template to a motor program by a form of reinforcement learning. This framework was tested by building a network model of the song-learning system including a model of the syrinx, the avian vocal organ. The model replicated the spectral envelopes of the syllables from zebra finch songs after several hundred trials of learning. The performance of the model was even better when trained on songs generated by another model having the same architecture. Experiments are proposed to further test the biological

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