A statistical method for quantifying songbird phonology and syntax

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-154

  Wu, Wei ^a   Thompson, John A ^a   Bertram, Richard ^a   Johnson, Frank ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic features; Kullback Leibler distance; Song similarity; Syllable phonology; Syllable syntax; Vocal development; Vocal plasticity; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGING;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENERVATION; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; FINCHES; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 49549103308     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.06.033     Document Type: Article

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