Name that tune: Melodic recognition by songbirds
Recent findings have indicated that European starlings perceive overall spectral shape and use this, rather than absolute pitch or timbre, to generalize between similar melodic progressions. This finding highlights yet another parallel between human and avian vocal communication systems and has many...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Springer US
2016
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101281/ |