Effect of Acoustic Cue Modifications on Evoked Vocal Response to Calls in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-161

  Vignal, Clémentine ^a,b   Mathevon, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Call; Information coding; Playback experiment; Songbird; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINCH; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FINCHES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEX FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79957797750     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020865     Document Type: Article

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