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Items in this Collection
- 1Behavioural
- 1Black-capped chickadees
- 1Classification methodologies
- 1Comparative cognition
- 1Octave equivalence
- 1Perceptual
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Methodological Comparisons of Classification Techniques and Refinement of an Operant go/no-go Procedure
DownloadFall 2022
Bioacoustic analyses have been used for a variety of purposes including classifying vocalizations for biodiversity monitoring and understanding mechanisms of cognitive processes. A wide range of statistical methods, including various automated methods, have been used to successfully classify...
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Pitch perception is not unitary: Evidence for the perception of pitch chroma in black-capped chickadees.
DownloadFall 2015
Pitch perception is mediated by two attributes: pitch height and pitch chroma. These two attributes can be pitted against one another during an octave equivalence task in order to clarify the dominant perceptual mechanism. Pitch chroma mediates the perceptual phenomenon of octave equivalence,...