Validation of an Auditory Sensory Reinforcement Paradigm: Campbell's Monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli) Do Not Prefer Consonant Over Dissonant Sounds

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 265-271

  Koda, Hiroki ^a   Nagumo, Sumiharu ^a   Basile, Muriel ^b   Olivier, Marion ^b   Remeuf, Kevin ^b   Blois Heulin, Catherine ^c   Lemasson, Alban ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory preference; Consonance; Evolution; music; Nonhuman primates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CERCOPITHECUS; FEMALE; HEARING; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CERCOPITHECUS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MUSIC; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND;

EID: 84883173340     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031237     Document Type: Article

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