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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Autor principal: Templeton, Christopher N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27439450
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0237-y
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spelling pubmed-51012812016-11-21 Name that tune: Melodic recognition by songbirds Templeton, Christopher N. Learn Behav Outlook 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 biological implications. Springer US 2016-07-21 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5101281/ /pubmed/27439450 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-016-0237-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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