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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
卷 129, 期 5, 页码 3373-3383出版社
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.3560121
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- National Institutes of Health [5P30DC004664, 5R01DC000198]
Zebra finches produce a learned song that is rich in harmonic structure and highly stereotyped. More is generally known about how birds learn and produce this song than how they perceive it. Here, zebra finches were trained with operant techniques to discriminate changes in natural and synthetic song motifs. Results show that zebra finches are quite insensitive to changes to the overall envelope of the motif since they were unable to discriminate more than a doubling in inter-syllable interval durations. By contrast, they were quite sensitive to changes in individual syllables. A series of tests with synthetic song syllables, including some made of frozen noise and Schroeder harmonic complexes, showed that birds used a suite of acoustic cues in normal listening but they could also distinguish among syllables simply on the basis of the temporal fine structure in the waveform. Thus, while syllable perception is maintained by multiple redundant cues, temporal fine structure features alone are sufficient for syllable discrimination and may be more important for communication than previously thought. (C) 2011 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI: 10.1121/1.3560121]
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