Studying the song development process: Rationale and methods

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 348-363

  Tchernichovski, O ^a   Lints, T J ^a   Deregnaucourt S ^a   Cimenser, A ^b   Mitra, P P ^c  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Vocal Development (DVD) maps; Song development; Sound analysis; Sound spectrogram

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DYNAMIC VOCAL DEVELOPMENT MAP; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SPECTOGRAM; TRAINING; VOCAL CORD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 3242738268     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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