Overtone-based pitch selection in hermit thrush song: Unexpected convergence with scale construction in human music

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 16616-16621

  Doolittle, Emily L ^a   Gingras, Bruno ^b   Endres, Dominik M ^c,d   Fitch, W Tecumseh ^b  

^a Critical and Contextual Studies and Technical Art History   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIRD; CATHARUS GUTTATUS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PITCH; RATING SCALE; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEASURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CATHARUS GUTTATUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PLEASURE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84915745959     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406023111     Document Type: Article

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