Chickadees fail standardized operant tests for octave equivalence

Animal Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 599-609

  Hoeschele, Marisa ^a   Weisman, Ronald G ^b,c   Guillette, Lauren M ^a   Hahn, Allison H ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological relevance; Black capped chickadees; Octave equivalence; Pitch chroma; Pitch height

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; REWARD; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REWARD; SONGBIRDS;

MAMMALIA; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PASSERI;

EID: 84879225220     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-013-0597-z     Document Type: Article

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