Salience of Caller Identity in Rhesus Monkey (Macaca, mulatta) Coos and Screams: Perceptual Experiments with Human (Homo sapiens) Listeners

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 380-390

  Owren, Michael J ^b   Rendall, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MACACA; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0346249692     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.117.4.380     Document Type: Article

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