Zebra finches are sensitive to prosodic features of human speech

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1787, 2014, Pages

  Spierings, Michelle J ^a   ten Cate, Carel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Prosody; Songbirds; Speech; Vocal perception; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84901396000     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0480     Document Type: Article

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