Song development: In search of the error-signal

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 364-376

  Deregnaucourt S ^a   Mitra, P P ^b   Feher O ^a   Maul, K K ^a   Lints, T J ^a   Tchernichovski, O ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Song development; Vocal production

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTROPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEARING; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PITCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RECORDING; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; VARIANCE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 3242718495     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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