Auditory scene analysis by European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): Perceptual segregation of tone sequences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3581-3587

  MacDougall Shackleton, Scott A ^a,b   Hulse, Stewart H ^a   Gentner, Timothy Q ^a   White, Wesley ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 0031778017     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423063     Document Type: Article

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