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    "pk": 4990,
    "title": "A Comparison of Song Syllable Perception by Species of Birds",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Perception of song syllables taken from natural song sparrow and swamp sparrow songs was examined in five different species: song sparrows (Melospiza melodia), swamp sparrows (Melospiza georgiana), zebra finches {Taeniopygia guttata catanotis), canaries iSerinus canaria), and budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Using operant conditioning techniques, we trained these birds to discriminate among sparrow song syllables. By testing the birds on all possible pair-wise combinations of syllables, we generated \"similarity\" matrices for these song syllables from the birds'response latencies to detect changes in a repeating background of syllables. A number of different statistical techniques were used to examine species differences in perception including factor analysis of an inter-species correlation matrix, cluster analysis ofthe similarity matrices, and individual-differences multidimensional scaling (MDS) of the similarity matrices from each species. The spatial map of these stimuli produced by MDS revealed the perceived relations among these syllables for each species. Several acoustic measurements taken from these syllables were correlated with stimulus coordinates of the syllables in multidimensional space. These results demonstrate that natural vocal signals can be effectively used as stimuli in psychoacoustic experiments and the outcome of such experiments are likely to reveal robust species differences in perception.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology"
        },
        {
            "word": "Behavior"
        },
        {
            "word": "Behaviour"
        },
        {
            "word": "learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy"
        },
        {
            "word": "cognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cognitive Processes"
        },
        {
            "word": "song"
        },
        {
            "word": "Syllable"
        },
        {
            "word": "perception"
        },
        {
            "word": "species"
        },
        {
            "word": "bird"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Research Article",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ck688xj",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Michel",
            "middle_name": "L",
            "last_name": "Kreutzer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Dooling",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Susan",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Brown",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Kazuo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Okanoya",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2012-10-04T23:06:35Z",
    "date_accepted": "2012-10-04T23:06:35Z",
    "date_published": "2012-10-04T07:00:00Z",
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}