Action at a distance: Dependency sensitivity in a New World primate

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ravignani, Andrea ^a   Sonnweber, Ruth Sophie ^a   Stobbe, Nina ^a   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computation; Language; Music; New World monkey; Pattern; Perception

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ANCESTRY; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; PRIMATE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTATION; EVOLUTION; HEARING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MUSIC; PATTERN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLATYRRHINI; SOUND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL MONKEY; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTATION; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; NEW WORLD MONKEY; PATTERN; PERCEPTION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SAIMIRI; SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84891912936     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0852     Document Type: Article

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