A behavior analysis of absolute pitch: Sex, experience, and species

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-307

  Weisman, Ronald G ^a   Njegovan, Milan G ^b   Williams, Mitchel T ^c   Cohen, Jerome S ^c   Sturdy, Christopher B ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Frequency ratio; Pitch shifted

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PITCH; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; SEX FACTORS; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

FRINGILLIDAE; MAMMALIA; MELOPSITTACUS; PASSERI; PASSERIDAE; PSITTACIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS;

EID: 2442461887     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.03.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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