Selective auditory grouping by zebra finches: testing the iambic–trochaic law

Animal Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 665-675

  Spierings, Michelle ^a,b   Hubert, Jeroen ^a   ten Cate, Carel ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic perception; Iambic trochaic law (ITL); Perceptual bias; Zebra finches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FINCH; HEARING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; SOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 85017099684     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-017-1089-3     Document Type: Article

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