Publications

Nicole Geberzahn Personal information Research projects

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Dudouit, C., Maury, C., Bosca, J., Bakker, A., Gahr, M., Aubin, T., Rybak, F., Geberzahn, N. 2022. Vocal performance during spontaneous song is equal in male and female European robins, Animal Behaviour. , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.012 (pdf access with subscription)

Brumm, H., Goymann, W., Derégnaucourt, S., Geberzahn, N., & Zollinger, S. A. 2021. Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function. Science Advances, 7: eabe2405 (pdf open access)

Le Maguer,L., Derégnaucourt, S.*, Geberzahn, N.* 2021. Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Ethology. doi: 10.1111/eth.13159. *Joint authors. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N., Zsebők, S. Derégnaucourt, S. 2021. Auditory perception of self and others in zebra finches: evidence from an operant discrimination task. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb233817 doi: 10.1242/jeb.233817 (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N., Derégnaucourt, S. 2020. Individual vocal recognition in zebra finches relies on song syllable structure rather than song syllable order. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb220087 doi: 10.1242/jeb.220087 (pdf open access)

Souriau, A.*, Geberzahn, N.*, Ivanitskii, V.V., Marova, I.M., Vokurková, J., Reifová, R., Reif, J., Petrusková, T. 2019. Singing behind the stage: thrush nightingales produce more variable songs on their wintering grounds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73: 150. doi: 10.1007/s00265-019-2765-x (pdf access with subscription)

*contributed equally to this work

Lobato, M., Vellema, M., Gahr, C., Leitao, A. , de Lima, S.M.A., Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2015. Mismatch in sexual dimorphism of developing song and song control system in blue-capped cordon-bleus, a songbird species with singing females and males. Front. Ecol. Evol. 3: 117. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00117 (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2014. Assessing vocal performance in complex birdsong: a novel approach. BMC Biology, 12: 58. (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2014. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68:1–12. (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2013. Song learning in male and female Uraeginthus cyanocephalus, a tropical songbird species. Journal of Comparative Psychology. 127(4): 352-364 (pdf access with subscription)

Linossier, J., Rybak, F., Aubin, T. & Geberzahn, N. 2013. Flight phases in the song of skylarks: impact on acoustic parameters and coding strategy. PLoS ONE 8(8): e72768. (pdf open access)

Nemeth, E., Pieretti, N., Zollinger, S.-A., Geberzahn, N., Partecke, J., Miranda, A. C. & Brumm, H. 2013. Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal production mechanisms may explain why birds sing higher pitched songs in cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20122798. (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2013. Memory-dependent adjustment of vocal response latencies in a territorial songbird. Journal of Physiology - Paris 107, 203–209. (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N., & Gahr, M. 2011. Undirected (solitary) birdsong in female and male blue-capped cordon-bleus (Uraeginthus cyanocephalus) and its endocrine correlates. PLoS ONE, 6(10), e26485. (pdf open access)

Holveck, M. J., Geberzahn, N. & Riebel, K. 2011. An experimental test of condition-dependent male and female mate choice in zebra finches. PLoS ONE, 6(8), e23974. (pdf open access)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. & ten Cate, C. 2010. Threat signaling in female song-evidence from playbacks in a sex-role reversed bird species. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 1147-1155. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, G., Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2009. Females alter their song when challenged in a sex-role reversed bird species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64: 193-204. (pdf open accesss)

Metz, M., Geberzahn, N., Hansen, L. H., Klump, G. M. & Friedl, T. W. 2007. Effects of behavioural time budgets and nest-building efficiency on male reproductive performance in red bishops (Euplectes orix). Journal of Ornithology 148:145–155. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N. & Hultsch, H. 2004. Rules of song development and their use in vocal interactions by birds with large repertoires. Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences 76, 209-218. (pdf open access)

Todt, D. & Geberzahn, N. 2003. Age dependent effects of song exposure: song crystallization sets a boundary between fast and delayed vocal imitation. Animal Behaviour 65, 971-979. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N. 2003. Is quantity of song type use in adult birds related to singing during development? Behaviour 140, 593-602. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N. & Hultsch, H. 2003. Long-time storage of song types in birds: evidence from interactive playbacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 270, 1085‑1090. (pdf access with subscription)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2002. Latent song type memories are accessible through auditory stimulation in a hand-reared songbird. Animal Behaviour 64, 93‑100. (pdf access with subcription)

Todt, D., Cirillo, J., Geberzahn, N. & Schleuss, F. 2001. The role of hierarchy levels in vocal imitations of songbirds. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 32, 257-283. (pdf access with subscription)

Gerber, B., Geberzahn, N., Hellstern, F., Klein, J., Kowalsky, O., Wüstenberg, D. & Menzel, R. 1996. Honey bees transfer olfactory memories established during flower visits to a proboscis extension paradigm in the laboratory. Animal Behaviour 52, 1079-1085. (pdf access with subscription)

Published Abstracts

Derégnaucourt, S., Nagle, L., Gahr, M., Aubin, T. & Geberzahn, N.2014. Cultural evolution of birdsong in the laboratory. Program No. 365.09/UU29. 2014 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2014. Online (poster).

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W., Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Acoustic variation in the females’ song of African black coucals (Centropus grillii), a bird species with reversed sex-roles. Journal of Ornithology, 147 suppl, 96.

Geberzahn, N. & Hultsch, H. 2003. Silent storage of vocal patterns in songbirds. Revista de Etolo­gia 5, 95.

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2001. Vocal matching in nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) in relation to the sequencing of song-types. Advances in Ethology 36, 162.

Hultsch, H, Geberzahn, N. & Schleuss, F. 1998. Song invention in nightingales - cues from song development. Ostrich 69, 254.

Geberzahn, N. & Hultsch, H. 1998. The role of song ontogeny in shaping individual performance profiles in nightingales. Ostrich 69, 250.

Geberzahn, N. 1998. Ontogenese individueller Charakteristika im Gesang der Nachtigall (Luscinia megarhynchos). Journal für Ornithologie 139, 234.

Gerber, B., Geberzahn, N., Hellstern, F., Klein, J., Kowalsky, O., Wüstenberg, D. & Menzel, R. 1995. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) transfer olfactory memories built up during free flying life to a proboscis extension paradigm in the laboratory. In: Elsner, N. & Menzel, R. (eds): Learning and memory. Proceedings of the 23^rd Göttingen Neurobiological Conference Abstract 32. Stuttgart, New York: Thieme.

Geberzahn, N., Nagle, L., Aubin, T. & Derégnaucourt, S. 2014. Cultural evolution of birdsong in the laboratory. (Invited talk at the annual meeting of the Université franco-allemand/ Deutsch- Französische Hochschule “Vocal communication” Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Nagle, L, Aubin, T. & Derégnaucourt, S. 2014. Cultural evolution of birdsong in the laboratory. (Paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the French Societey for Animal Behaviour, Nanterre, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2014. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. (Paper presented at the 9th topical meeting of the Ethological Society: „Function and Mechanisms of Animal Behaviour”, Tutzing, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Nemeth, E., Pieretti, N., Zollinger, S.-A., Partecke, J., Miranda, A. C. & Brumm, H, T. 2013. Chants d’oiseaux et bruits anthropiques: explication de l’augmentation de la fréquence des chants dans les villes. (Invited talk at the meeting of the Societe Francais Acousitc on “The effects of anthropogenic noise on terrestrial fauna at the Laboratoire Régional des Ponts et Chaussées de Strasbourg, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2013. Comment une espèce d’oiseau à chant continu module son chant lorsque son territoire est contesté. (Poster presented at the 2013 meeting of the French Societey for Animal Behaviour, Dijon, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2013. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. (Invited talk at the weekly seminar of the research team Animal Behaviour, Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy / Biology Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2013. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. (Invited talk at a seminar series, Université de Saint-Etienne - Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2013. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. (Invited talk at the annual meeting of the Université franco-allemand/ Deutsch- Französische Hochschule “Interactions, communications and learning: from invertebrates to humans”, La Défense, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2013. How a songbird with a continuous singing style modulates its song when territorially challenged. (Paper presented at Behaviour 2013, a joint meeting of the 33^rd International Ethological Conference, IEC, and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Newcastle, UK)

Derégnaucourt, S. & Geberzahn, N. 2013. Le chant du Rossignol Philomèle (Luscinia megarhynchos): du terrain au laboratoire. (Invited talk at the meeting of International and Interdisciplinary studies ‘The song of the nightingale. Science, social practices and representations in time and space’, European Archaeological Centre, Bibracte, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2013. Song production learning in male and female songbirds: studies on blue capped cordon bleus (Uraeginthus cyanocephalus), an estrildid finch. (Invited talk at the 2^nd European Workshop on ‘Physiological mechanism on song learning and production’, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

Linossier, J., Rybak, F., Aubin, T. & Geberzahn, N. 2012. The flight song of the skylark: constraint of production, cultural transmission and individual recognition. (Invited talk at the Workshop of the German-French University and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology: ‘Telemetric approaches in behavioural and physiological measurements’, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2012. Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) increase their duty cycle of their song in a territorial context. Book of Programme 110 (Poster & paper presented at the 14^th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, ISBE, Lund, Sweden)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2012. Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) change the timing of their song in a territorial context. Book of Abstracts 43 (Paper presented at the 6^th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, ECBB, Essen, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2012. Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) increase their duty cycle in a territorial context. Congress Programme and Abstracts 228 (Invited talk at Acoustics 2012 a joint meeting of the 11^th French Congress of Acoustics and the Institute of Acoustics, IOA, annual meeting, Nantes, France)

Geberzahn, N. 2012. Song learning in male and female songbirds: examples from lab studies on nightingales and blue-capped cordon-bleus. (Invited seminar at the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology and Cognition, University Paris Ouest, Nanterre, La Défense, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2012. Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) increase their duty cycle of their song in a territorial context. (Paper presented at the 2012 meeting of the French Societey for Animal Behaviour, Saint-Étienne, France)

Geberzahn, N. 2012. Vocal learning in songbirds: Song memorisation in adulthood and sex-specific differences (Invited seminar at the Research Centre for Animal Cognition, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

Geberzahn, N., & Gahr, M. 2012. The song of skylarks (Alauda arvensis): from behaviour to the brain. (Invited talk at the CNRS-MPG Network - Meeting, College de France, Paris, France)

Geberzahn, N. 2011. Song of female birds (Invited seminar at the Institut for Integrated Cell and Animal Biology, University Paris Sud, Orsay, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Aubin, T. 2011. Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) increase their duty cycle in a territorial context. (Invited talk at the Workshop of the German-French Univsersity and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology: ‘Animal communication: mechanisms, consequences and social aspects’ , University Paris Ouest, Nanterre, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2011. Song learning in male and female songbirds: from whom to learn when both sexes sing? (Paper presented at the 23^rd International Bioacoustic Congresse, La Rochelle, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2011. Song learning in male and female songbirds: from whom to learn when both sexes sing? (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the French Research Groupe Ethologie, Montpellier, France)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2010. Song learning of female songbirds. (Paper presented at the Workshop of the German-French University and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology: ‘Acoustic Communication of birds: Behavioural Paradigms, Quantification and Neural Mechanisms’, Max Planck Institute for Ornithologie, Seewiesen, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2010. Vocal production learning in a songbird with singing females. Abstract Book 21 (Paper presented at the EthoCommunication Meeting of the Ethological Society, Berlin, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2008. Does song development in female song birds follow the same route as in males? Abstract Book 184 (Poster presented at the 12^th International Behavioural Ecology Congress, Ithaca, USA)

Geberzahn, N. & Gahr, M. 2008. Does song development in female song birds follow the same route as in males? Abstract Book 26 (Poster presented at the International Conference ‘Vocal communication in Birds and Mammals’, St. Andrews, Scotland)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Female song as a signal of aggressive intent in a sex-role reversed bird species, the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology, Dalfsen, The Netherlands)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Acoustic features in female song vary with competitive context in sex-role reversed African Black Coucal (Centropus grillii) (Paper presented at on the 21^st International Bioacoustic Congress in Pavia, Italy)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Female song as a signal of aggressive intent in a sex-role reversed bird species, the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Paper presented at the 30^th International Ethological Conference in Halifax, Canada)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Female song and territorial conflicts in a sex-role reversed bird species: the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Invited seminar at the Behavioural Biology Group at the University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Female song as a signal of aggressive intent in a sex-role reversed bird species, the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Poster presented at the final Workshop of the Department of Biological Rhythms and Behaviour of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Andechs, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W., Muck, C. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Female song as a signal of aggressive intent in a sex-role reversed bird species, the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Invited seminar at the Behavioural Discussion Group, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK)

Geberzahn, N., Goymann, W. & ten Cate, C. 2006. Vocal interactions in a bird species with reversed sex-roles: the African black coucal (Centropus grillii) (Paper presented at the 3^rd European Conference on Behavioural Biology in Belfast Northern Ireland, UK)

Hultsch, H. & Geberzahn, N. 2006. Learning ‘What to Sing’ and ‘How to Sing’. (Invited paper presented at the International Symposium in Honour of Dietmar Todt, Science Frontiers: Birdsong in Behavioural & Neurobiological Research, Free University Berlin, Germany)

Geberzahn, N. 2005. Lessons of song learning from the nightingales (Paper presented at the Biology Seminars Leiden – ‘In the spotlight’, Leiden, the Netherlands)

Geberzahn, N. 2005. Memorization of novel songs in adult Nightingales (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology, Dalfsen, The Netherlands)

Geberzahn, N. & Todt, D. 2005. Song crystallization as a constraint of sensorimotor learning in nightingales (Paper presented at the 29^th International Ethological Conference in Budapest, Hungary)

Geberzahn, N. & Todt, D. 2004. Late learning and memory activation: Mechanisms of song convergence in adult nightingales (Invited seminar at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Capetown, South Africa)

Kipper, S., Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2004. Responses to unfamiliar song types in nightingales. Book of Abstracts 114 (Poster presented on the 10^th Congress of the International Society of Behavioural Ecology in Jyväskylä, Finland)

Geberzahn, N. & Todt, D. 2004. Age dependent effects of song exposure: song crystallization sets a boundary between fast and delayed vocal imitation. Book of Abstracts 70 (Poster presented on the 10^th Congress of the International Society of Behavioural Ecology in Jyväskylä, Finland)

Geberzahn, N. 2004. Late learning and memory activation: mechanisms of song convergence in adult nightingales (Invited seminar at the seminar of the Behavioural Biology Group, University Leiden, Netherlands)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2003. How to achieve interactive competence: cues from experimentally induced vocal interactions in songbirds, Abstract Book 56 (Poster presented on the 19^th International Bioacoustic Congress in Belém, Brazil)

Geberzahn, N. & Hultsch, H. 2003. Long-time storage of song types in birds: evidence from interactive play­backs, Abstract Book 55 (Paper presented on the 19^th International Bioacoustic Congress in Belém, Brazil)

Geberzahn, N. & Todt, D. 2003. Latent song-type memories in hand-reared nightingales. Abstract Book 222 (Poster presented on the 96^th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society in Berlin, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2002. Sequencing of invented and imitated song-types in the singing of nightingales. Abstracts 35 (Poster presented on the first European conference for Behavioural Biology in Münster, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2002. Rapid learning of song associations: evidence from interactive playbacks. Abstract Volume 228 (Poster presented on the 23^rd International Ornithologi­cal Congress Beijing, China)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2001. Memorization of unsung song types. Congress Program 362 (Poster presented at the International Neuroethology Congress in Bonn, Germany)

Geberzahn, N., Hultsch, H. & Todt, D. 2000. Latent song-type memories in hand-reared nightingales (Poster presented at the Meeting of the Ethological Society, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Geberzahn, N. & Todt, D. 1999. Is frequency of song-type use in adult birds related to singing during development? Abstracts Book 25 (Poster presented at the ASAB summer meeting in Lisbon, Portugal)

Press coverage (selection)

The economist: Male nightingales spend the winter practicing

NewScientist: Nightingales practise new songs in winter to impress mates in spring

Sciencedaily (scientific web portal): Clamorous City Blackbirds: Birds Can Sing Louder at Higher Frequencies to Make Themselves Heard Over Traffic Noise

ORF (Austrian Television, online version): Mehr Tenöre in der Stadt

Der Standard (Austian Newspaper, online version): Wiener Amseln singen höher und lauter als Artgenossen am Land

Krone (Austrian Newspaper, online version): Amseln singen in der Stadt lauter als auf dem Land

Quotidiane (Italien web portal): Nelle città gli uccelli noncantano, urlano

Gaianews (Italien web portal): Como cantano gli ucelli di città?

Frankfurter Neue Presse (German newspaper): Beim Grillkuckuck verteidigen die Weibchen

Bionieuws (Dutch newspaper): Zang weerspiegelt kracht ook bij vrouwtjes

Der Stern (German Magazine, online version): Warum Grillkuckuck-Weibchen Machos sind

N-TV (German television, online version): Weibchen im unblutigem Revierkampf, Kuckuck

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