New Perspectives on Absolute Pitch in Birds and Mammals

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Weisman, Ronald G ^a   Mewhort, Douglas J K ^a   Hoeschele, Marisa ^b   Sturdy, Christopher B ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute pitch; Auditory perception; Birds; Mammals; Phylogenetic development; Pitch perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923398410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392661.013.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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