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Studying the silent side of birdsong
The quality of complex communication signals, such as birdsong, is difficult to assess and compare across individuals or species. A new study on skylark song avoids the problem of signal complexity by assessing motor performance during the silent gaps of songs. This provides a metric of song quality...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0062-8 |
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| author | Cardoso, Gonçalo C |
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| description | The quality of complex communication signals, such as birdsong, is difficult to assess and compare across individuals or species. A new study on skylark song avoids the problem of signal complexity by assessing motor performance during the silent gaps of songs. This provides a metric of song quality applicable to species with very diverse songs, which facilitates novel types of analyses and comparisons in avian bioacoustics. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/58. |
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| spelling | pubmed-42437752014-11-26 Studying the silent side of birdsong Cardoso, Gonçalo C BMC Biol Commentary The quality of complex communication signals, such as birdsong, is difficult to assess and compare across individuals or species. A new study on skylark song avoids the problem of signal complexity by assessing motor performance during the silent gaps of songs. This provides a metric of song quality applicable to species with very diverse songs, which facilitates novel types of analyses and comparisons in avian bioacoustics. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/58. BioMed Central 2014-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4243775/ /pubmed/25184387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0062-8 Text en © Cardoso; licensee BioMed Central 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| spellingShingle | Commentary Cardoso, Gonçalo C Studying the silent side of birdsong |
| title | Studying the silent side of birdsong |
| title_full | Studying the silent side of birdsong |
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| title_short | Studying the silent side of birdsong |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0062-8 |
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