%0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences %D 2016 %T Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound pattern recognition %A Bregman, Micah R %A Patel, Aniruddh D %A Gentner, Timothy Q %X

Abstract Humans easily recognize “transposed” musical melodies shifted up or down in log frequency. Surprisingly, songbirds seem to lack this capacity, although they can learn to recognize human melodies and use complex acoustic sequences for communication. ...

%B Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences %I National Acad Sciences %V 113 %P 1666-1671 %@ 0027-8424 %G eng %U http://www.pnas.org/content/113/6/1666.abstract %R 10.1073/pnas.1515380113