Species-typical songs in white-crowned sparrows tutored with only phrase pairs

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 753-758

  Rose, Gary J ^a   Goller, Franz ^a   Gritton, Howard J ^a   Plamondon, Stephanie L ^a   Baugh, Alexander T ^a   Cooper, Brenton G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUDITION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FEEDBACK; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AUDITORY FEEDBACK; SONG STRUCTURE; SPECIES-TYPICAL SONGS; VOCAL BEHAVIOR;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BIRD; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIDAE; ZONOTRICHIA; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 10644297044     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02992     Document Type: Article

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