Complex sequencing rules of birdsong can be explained by simple hidden Markov processes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Katahira, Kentaro ^a,b,c   Suzuki, Kenta ^a,c,d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b,c   Okada, Masato ^a,b,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SINGING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; VOCALIZATION;

LONCHURA STRIATA; LONCHURA STRIATA DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052517363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024516     Document Type: Article

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