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- 6McMillan, Neil
- 5Nicoladis, E.
- 5Noels, Kimberly A.
- 5Spetch, Marcia L.
- 5Sturdy, Christopher B.
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Effect of feed-time duration on discrimination of vocalizations in a go/no-go operant paradigm
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Refining and modifying experimental procedures play a vital role in improving methodology while also reducing animal distress. In this study, we asked if an increase in feed time duration affects discrimination in an operant go/no-go task. Specifically, we used zebra finches’ sexually dimorphic...
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Effect of Room Size on Geometry and Features Cue Preference during Reorientation: Modulating Encoding Strength or Cue Weighting
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Three experiments investigated how the room size affects preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues during reorientation inside a room. We hypothesized that room size may affect preferential use of geometric and non-geometric cues by affecting the encoding of the cues (the encoding...
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Features of Male- and Female-Produced Song in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus) Change Between Seasons
Features of Male- and Female-Produced Song in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus) Change Between Seasons
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Campbell, K. A., Thunberg, S., & Sturdy, C. B.
Of the 10 000 or so known avian species, nearly half belong to the clade Passeri[1]. Also called Oscines, or songbirds, birds in this group are unique in that they possess a morphologically complex vocal organ, the syrinx, which facilitates the production of complex and diverse vocalizations,...
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Figures for the Manuscript titled as 'Superior Cognitive Mapping through Single-landmark-related Learning than through Boundary-related Learning'
Figures for the Manuscript titled as 'Superior Cognitive Mapping through Single-landmark-related Learning than through Boundary-related Learning'
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Cognitive mapping is assumed to be through hippocampus-dependent place learning rather than striatum-dependent response learning. However, we propose that either type of spatial learning, as long as it involves encoding metric relations between locations and reference points, could lead to a...
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Hear them roar: A comparison of black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) and human (Homo sapiens) perception of arousal in vocalizations across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates
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Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Piera Filippi, Kimberley A. Campbell, John Hoang, Erin N. Scully, Daniel L. Bowling, Stephan A. Reber, Christopher B. Sturdy
Recently, evidence for acoustic universals in vocal communication was found by demonstrating that humans can identify levels of arousal in vocalizations produced by species across three biological classes (Filippi et al., 2017). Here, we extend this work by testing whether two vocal learning...
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Hoteling Tsquare test power analyses and Bayes Factor
2024-07-20
This matlab code can be used to analyze multiple dimension data, two dimension data are used for example. We can do t test, power analysis, and calculate Bayes Factor based on t test.
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Hyponymy ratings of English compound words
2020-02-25
Gagné, Christina L, Gagne, Christina L
This database contains hyponymy ratings for 2754 English compounds. The database is available in both Stata and CSV formats. The variable id_master refers to the item number in the LADEC database (Gagné, CL., Spalding, TL., & Schmidtke, D. (2019). LADEC: Large database of English compounds....
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If it ain’t broke don’t fix it: breeding success affects nest-building decisions
2021-01-01
Observational studies in the wild suggest that birds select material to build their nests based on functional aspects of material that promote reproductive success. How birds select material for nest building from the variety of materials available in their environment is unclear. In the current...
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Individual acoustic differences in female black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee 1 songs
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Carolina Montenegro, Prateek K. Sahu, Christopher B. Sturdy
In songbirds, song has traditionally been considered a vocalization mainly produced by males. 11 However, recent research suggests that both sexes produce song. While the function and 12 structure of male black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) fee-bee song have been well-13 studied,...