Auditory Scene Analysis by Songbirds: Stream Segregation of Birdsong by European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-13

  Hulse, Stewart H ^a   MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a   Wisniewski, Amy B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; MALE; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031090965     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.111.1.3     Document Type: Article

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