Stimulus-dependent flexibility in non-human auditory pitch processing

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-60

  Bregman, Micah R ^a,b   Patel, Aniruddh D ^c   Gentner, Timothy Q ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Auditory cognition; Pitch perception; Relative pitch; Songbird

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARLING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARLINGS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 81055156139     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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