Mechanisms of song perception in oscine birds

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-68

  Knudsen, Daniel P ^a   Gentner, Timothy Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Evolution; Language; Neuroethology; Psychoacoustics; Songbird; Speech; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; COGNITION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; OSCINE BIRD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SONGBIRD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77957905906     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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