Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7088, 2006, Pages 1204-1207

  Gentner, Timothy Q ^a,c   Fenn, Kimberly M ^b   Margoliash, Daniel ^a,b   Nusbaum, Howard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS;

LINGUISTIC THEORIES; SONGBIRDS; SYNTACTIC PROCESSING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GRAMMAR; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SONGBIRD; STARLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; PASSERI; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 33646367441     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04675     Document Type: Article

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