Long-range Order in Canary Song

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Markowitz, Jeffrey E ^a,b   Ivie, Elizabeth ^c   Kligler, Laura ^c   Gardner, Timothy J ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center of Excellence for Learning in Education Science and Technology   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; BIRDS SONG; CANARY SONGS; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; LONG RANGE ORDERS; PERFORMANCE; SIMPLE++; TIME-SCALES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; SINGING;

AVES; SPIZELLA;

EID: 84878490046     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003052     Document Type: Article

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