Biological relevance of acoustic signal affects discrimination performance in a songbird

Animal Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-688

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Guillette, Lauren M ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological relevance; Black capped chickadee; Chickadee; Discrimination; Fee bee song; Operant conditioning; Pitch; Pitch interval; Relative pitch; Song

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; SONGBIRDS;

APOIDEA; AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PASSERI;

EID: 84862633783     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-012-0496-8     Document Type: Article

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