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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Templeton, Christopher N.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer US 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101281/