Frequency-Range Discriminations: Special and General Abilities in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and Humans (Homo sapiens)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 244-258

  Weisman, Ron ^a   Njegovan, Milan ^a   Sturdy, Chris ^a   Phillmore, Leslie ^a   Coyle, James ^a   Mewhort, Douglas ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MUSIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSIC; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; VOICE;

EID: 0032160287     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.112.3.244     Document Type: Article

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