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Sebastien DEREGNAUCOURT

@sebrafinch.bsky.social

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Professeur d’Ethologie

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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🎉 New paper out in Animal Cognition! 🐦 Does variation in birdsong reflect differences in cognitive abilities? We tested this in zebra finches raised under controlled cultural conditions. Our main finding: variation in song structure did not predict associative or reversal learning performance.

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Sebastien DEREGNAUCOURT @sebrafinch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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Early attempts to use a robot as a song tutor in zebra finches

Young zebra finches learn to sing by listening to an adult tutor much like how children learn to speak. We tested whether a bird-like robot could tutor song learning. Birds exposed to a moving or stat...

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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New article from our team! A. Araguas et al. show that social interaction shapes vocal learning in young zebra finches tutored by a robot bird 🤖 🎶🐦 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... And check out @sebrafinch.bsky.social's Cassyni presentation on this study: cassyni.com/events/9682W...

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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Our new article is out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! 🐦 We show how song cultures emerged in three domesticated zebra finch colonies founded with males trained to sing the same song 🎶 Full study here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Lauriane Rat-Fischer, enseignante-chercheuse de notre laboratoire @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, était au JT de France2 @francetelevisions.bsky.social ce vendredi pour parler d'utilisation d'outils chez les animaux ! 🐄🦜😄

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LECD - Laboratoire Ethologie Cognition Développement @lecd-upn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Male domestic canaries have individual preferences for female vocalisations🐥♥️🐥 Check out the recent article by Camille Le Gal, Sébastien Derégnaucourt @sebrafinch.bsky.social and Mathieu Amy here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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